The Terrifying Reality of Long-Term Unemployment

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33. In PA if you are self - employed you must pay in but you cannot collect.

"Self-Employment During the Base Year

Services performed in self-employment do not qualify as base-year employment and will not be used to establish financial eligibility for benefits. Independent contractors are self-employed. The following two factors must exist for a claimant to be considered self-employed.

The individual has been and will continue to be free from control or direction over the performance of his/her services, both under his/her contract of hire and in fact.


As to such services, the individual is customarily engaged in an independently established trade, occupation, profession or business.

If the claimant alleges an employer-employee relationship, but the employer states that the claimant is self-employed, the employer must prove that the claimant is free from control over the performance of the service and customarily engaged in an independently established trade, occupation, profession or business."

If you create a corporation or an LLC, corporate officers are not eligible to collect.