I am in TX. Anyone able to collect due to severance payout?
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You can file immediately and be approved doesn't = you will be paid immediately. If you received 4 months of severance, regardless of lump sum or not, you will be waiting those 4 months. TWC knows what you received.
I am in Texas and was told I had to wait the equivalent time of my "severance" payout(about 8 months). If you read the document, it technically isn't severance but rather a "release of liability." Basically it means "we (Dell) are giving you this money so you won't sue us for wrongful termination, discrimination, etc." I was told I had to wait to receive unemployment. I could have attempted an appeal based on the language and received unemployment sooner but I didn't have the energy (I was going through a serious illness) to fight. A co-worker that was WFR at the same time I was, appealed and was never successful, yet, others in other states did not have to wait at all.
TWC is a joke. good luck.
As long as they're still paying severance as a lump sum and not weekly payments, you can file immediately.
File asap
Yes you can collect. Some people have reported that they had to wait a couple months before they could collect.
As someone else recommended best to wait until the new year if you can so that the payments don't throw you into a higher tax bracket.
Wait if you can till next year so you do not get dinged on taxes
2 months + week/per year service in california