Quesstion on California EDD unemployment application

When I tried to fill in the form online, there's a question:

Have you received, or do you expect to receive, any of the following payments since your last day of work?
There's an item:
Severance pay: Pay you received from your employer when you were fired or laid off.
And you if you click and select it, you need to provide the Total Amount of $, and From-date and End-date.

What should I input here? If I will get a package amounts to 8 weeks of pay, should I input from 04/10 to 06/05? Does it mean I cannot get any money until after 06/05?

A friend told me just don't select it and start getting the money now. Is it leagl?

#Unemployment #California

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OP, You quesstion if it is leagl? Didn't misspelled words appear underlined in red in the text box when you wrote your post? I question how you go a job in the first place. Not being able to fill out unemployment forms doesn't look good for your future

Enter it as a lump sum on the date you received. It's not considered wages for EDD purposes so no need to lie.

I copied the above question to chatGPT, and here's the answer:

Short answer: do not skip it. You should report severance honestly. But how you enter it—and whether it delays benefits—depends on how your severance is structured.

1) How to fill in the severance section

On a California Employment Development Department (EDD) unemployment application:

Case A — Lump-sum severance (most common)
Example: “8 weeks of pay” paid in one check or a couple of checks, not tied to specific weeks worked
What to enter:
Total Amount: full severance amount
From-date: your last day worked (e.g., 04/10)
End-date: often same day or left as a short range depending on form behavior

👉 In many cases, EDD does NOT treat lump-sum severance as wages for specific weeks, so it may not delay your weekly unemployment benefits.

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