Can I get unemployment benefits while I have an application submitted for disability?
August 27th, 2010 | 
Author: Question by Dewayne: Can I get unemployment benefits while I have an application submitted for disability?
I applied for social security disability while collecting unemployment and applying for jobs. Now I’ve been offered an extension for unemployment benefits, but the weekly benefit application asks if I have applied for and/or received disability benefits on the weeks being claimed. This is in Kansas. The online unemployment benefit application doesn’t ask about disability benefits, but these paper ones for the past two months do. What do I say? I don’t know if my disability ap will be approved or not.
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Answer by Gabrielle,
You will need to contact them as they will have all your details on the computer
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No.
By definition, if you’re trying for disability, then that means you cannot work. To get unemployment, you have to be looking for a job. If you can work and look for a job, you don’t need disability, do you?
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No. Unemployment requires you be looking for work and able to work.
If you’re applying for jobs you can’t be disabled…expect both apps to be declined.
For 6 months or longer, under Doctor care which he will be contacted for. To receive unemployment benefit you must be actively looking for a job, and able to work. If in any week you are sick you are required to tell unemployment that you were out sick and you receive no unemployment for that week. Unemployment requires being able to work and are looking for a job. Disability requires just the opposite. You can go to jail for fraud if you are trying to cheat the Federal Government. These are the rules in the State of Delaware, and I would think about the same in other States since they are Government programs.
..however, you are either employed or you are not employed – if you are disabled and cant work, then you cant work…unless the work is totally independent of what injury/illness you have and you cant still do that much. I am confused about the disabled/not disabled thing. How did you come to get unemployment? Some states do allow both – I dont know about Kansas.
You have to tell the truth – no one is better at coordination of benefits than the government. You want the disability benefit way more than the unemployment, but RIGHT NOW you dont have the disability payment yet. These things are not related. Just tell the truth to unemployment – you have applied for but not received disability benefits – you cant collect SS disability and unemployment I dont think.
There are a lot of benefits coming from the disability declaration – but you cant start to scam the system or you will be in deep trouble.
Talk to people at these offices and get the facts on what you can and cant do – I am very serious – dont start to fudge the truth with these folks – you cant imagine the trouble you can get into.
PS I do know we have had this discussion a few days ago.
Anyway, at my SSDI intake meeting, I told them I was on EDD benefits and when those started, I sent copies to the EDD about my SSDI benefits. No one has said “No.” Thus, in answer to your question, I am. Thus, I suppose you may also. Meanwhile, I am also on this “Ticket To Work” program, trying to figure out possible employment.