Originally Posted by Pulaski (Post 12860650)

I agree with all the above advice, that the answer is almost certainly "no", but I would add that unemployment in the US is managed more like an account that you pay into - you can claim unemployement based on a qualifying period (maybe two years?) which coveres you for, I think, 26 weeks of payments (it was longer based on temporary arrangements with the federal government after the great recession in 2008). So if you're out of work for 26 weeks, using up your entitlement of 26 weeks of unemployment pay, then find a job, but lose your job again after three months, you will find that you are only entitled to maybe three weeks of unemployment pay based on the three months of "contributions".

Originally Posted by Pulaski (Post 12860650)

I agree with all the above advice, that the answer is almost certainly "no", but I would add that unemployment in the US is managed more like an account that you pay into - you can claim unemployement based on a qualifying period (maybe two years?) which covers you for, I think, 26 weeks of payments (it was longer based on temporary arrangements with the federal government after the great recession in 2008). So if you're out of work for 26 weeks, using up your entitlement of 26 weeks of unemployment pay, then find a job, but lose your job again after three months, you will find that you are only entitled to maybe three weeks of unemployment pay based on the three months of "contributions".