If I’m freelance and they take taxes out of my check, and give me a W-2 am I eligible to collect unemployment?

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You can’t be both an IC and full time at the same at one company. It’s either or. If they collect your taxes it means they see you as a full time employee. In order for you to collect unemployment they need to lay you off. As a contractor or freelancer you are free to take any new job you want and of course you won’t be eligible for unemployment then.

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I freelanced with an agency that brings on freelancers as part-time employees. You may be eligible for benefits that way. Unemployment will depend on labor laws. I believe if you average a certain number of hours a week over a specific number of weeks they have to make you full-time. Read up on your state labor laws.

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Yes.

Yes.

Not while employed. Yes in between.

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