Do Unemployment departments have access to passport info?

[kaya541 1]

Does anyone know if unemployment departments have access to passport information? I filed in Oregon after being laid off temporarily and they are denying me because they say I have been in Canada (which I have for a little while) even though I was claiming thru the online system for each week laid off. So would the Oregon Unemployment Dept have access to my passport info stating when I left the country and came back?

[Marc and Olga 0]

Maybe they checked the IP and found it to be Canadian?

Just a guess, but I would be more curious why a trip to Canada was so important to them, maybe you were visiting your sick mother...how do they know? How do they know you were laid off before your already planned and paid for trip and you decided that being laid off wasn't going to stop your planned fun?

This would bother me...

As for passport info, I do not know.

[Sassy1natl 0]

I posted on the other forum as well... I believe someone (Cattitude, I think) found a link for you.

Good luck...

[Carlawarla 1]

You might want to explain, if given the opportunity, that you're not claiming for the week or so you were in Canada. If you did claim you were looking each and every day, but were instead in Canada visiting, then you're probably going to be discontinued benefits, and hopefully won't be charged with fraud.

[Carlawarla 1]

Maybe they checked the IP and found it to be Canadian?

Just a guess, but I would be more curious why a trip to Canada was so important to them, maybe you were visiting your sick mother...how do they know? How do they know you were laid off before your already planned and paid for trip and you decided that being laid off wasn't going to stop your planned fun?

This would bother me...

As for passport info, I do not know.

A trip to Canada may have been important to them if they found he/she was in Canada when they were answering that he was looking for work everyday, and getting paid benefits. I don't know...I think if you asked the residents/taxpayers of Oregon, they'd be pretty pi$$ed if they found out he was in Canada and still claiming benefits. That is not to say he couldn't have put down, that he was not claiming for the time he was in Canada.

[Saddle Bronc 124]

Maybe they checked the IP and found it to be Canadian?

Just a guess, but I would be more curious why a trip to Canada was so important to them, maybe you were visiting your sick mother...how do they know? How do they know you were laid off before your already planned and paid for trip and you decided that being laid off wasn't going to stop your planned fun?

This would bother me...

As for passport info, I do not know.

A trip to Canada may have been important to them if they found he/she was in Canada when they were answering that he was looking for work everyday, and getting paid benefits. I don't know...I think if you asked the residents/taxpayers of Oregon, they'd be pretty pi$$ed if they found out he was in Canada and still claiming benefits. That is not to say he couldn't have put down, that he was not claiming for the time he was in Canada.

If he was searching for work from where he was in Canada (most state unemployment agencies require a certain number of weekly contacts--in IT field, this requirement can be achieved in between 30 seconds and 10 minutes worth of resume submissions), then Oregon doesn't really have valid case for denial.