Not sure what he does but he should be covered under the Cares act. I missed time and was paid by my employer
He's retail. I'm an independent contractor. We both dipped into unemployment back in April/May/June, when his store was shutdown and I lost a bunch of my clients. I'm sure he can probably continue to receive it (if necessary) by filling out the paperwork, but I'm not sure about myself.
It was a real hassle trying to file for the Care Act back then, because normally, independent contractors aren't eligible for unemployment, so the system they're using isn't set up for them. I kept getting the message that, because I hadn't put anything in, I couldn't receive unemployment. Then I got a surprise lump sum deposit like 3 months later, well after I had stopped filing. Had to call the unemployment office to confirm that it wasn't a mistake and I could, in fact, use that money.
I'm assuming, because I have zero faith in bureaucracy, that it hasn't gotten any easier since then.
