Unemployment benefit income for I-864

[asifkhan107624 0]

I was unemployed for a couple of months and received unemployment benefit. Can those be added to my total income when determining eligibility for sponsor?

[SalishSea 17,819]

Yes

[Mike E 11,739]

19 minutes ago, asifkhan107624 said:

Can those be added to my total income when determining eligibility for sponsor?

Do you still receive this benefit?

[pushbrk 12,873]

16 minutes ago, asifkhan107624 said:

I was unemployed for a couple of months and received unemployment benefit. Can those be added to my total income when determining eligibility for sponsor?

Actually the answer to your direct question is "no".  There are two places you state "income".  The first is the tax section, which is about PAST income.  If you are now "employed" it will be your "current income" stated in a separate place on the form, that will qualify you as sponsor, that number would not include anything that is from the "past".  Take the gross pay for a pay period, and multiply by the number of pay periods in a full year.  (every two weeks is X26) That is your current annual income.  

Nothing about last year matters, if you don't have enough "current income".