Taken straight from NY Labor website. Am I missing something that says you must work for a company for 6 months.
You must have worked and been paid wages for work in at least two calendar quarters in your base period,
AND
You must have been paid at least $1,900 in wages in one of the calendar quarters in your base period,
AND
The total wages paid to you in your base period must be one and one-half times your high quarter wages.
We use no more than $9,240 of your high quarter earnings to determine if you qualify. You must have earned at least half that amount ($4,620) in the other base period quarters.
If you qualify using the Basic base period, we use that period to establish your claim.
- If you do not qualify in the Basic base period, we will calculate using the Alternate base period.
- If you qualify under the Basic base period, you may think that using the Alternate base period would give you a higher benefit rate. You can ask us to recalculate your rate using the Alternate base period. You have 10 days from the date of the initial notice to make the request.
- If you do not qualify using either base period
AND
You received Workers' Compensation payments
OR
Volunteer Firefighters' benefits during the Basic base period,
THEN
We may extend the Basic base period back up to 2 calendar quarters. This will depend on how many base period quarters you received these benefits.
- If you do not qualify in any of these base periods,
AND
You worked for pay in the calendar quarter when you filed,
AND
You are still unemployed after that quarter ends,
AND
You think that you may qualify using the latest work,
THEN
You should apply again for benefits after this calendar quarter ends.
That's usually how it works. They would have gone back a set amount of time and found that you had worked the requisite amount of hours or earned the requisite amount of compensation.