Summer 2020 interns: can we file for unemployment benefits?
Since most of our internships have been shortened to July, can we get unemployment checks for the month of June? It seems that according to ca.gov, we qualify since we are "totally or partially unemployed." Also, if we file for unemployment insurance benefit payments, will our banks find out? Here's the California eligibility guidelines: https://edd.ca.gov/unemployment/Eligibility.htm
This here is an example of a kid looking at the tress and missing the forest.
While you could do this, your employer does get a notice that you filed for unemployment benefits since they pay into unemployment insurance or a state general unemployment fund. Of course this varies state by state, but I’d be willing to bet almost all do this. Probably not worth the red flags/integrity issues this would bring up with your potential full time employer down the road, or at the very least, a place you want a good reference from.
Total shame on all you thinking of doing this. When our country's financial resources are stretched so thinly, for those fortunate to have a IB internship and therefore most likely a decent full time job offer in some aspect of finance around the corner, you all think you should be entitled to a piece of the pie from those in much direr situations? You are literally making more in a few months than a minimum wage worker does in an entire year. I hope you all get your offers rescinded.
shame on you OP. you're gonna be raking in ~85k pro rata but ur here asking if you can juice the public welfare system for a few more bucks while there are literally people dying and going broke
good luck with that return offer you've been dying for when HR finds out you've been semi-defrauding the gov for booze money