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MeadowLedger t1_ja0t7p7 wrote

It's complicated. You may be eligible for unemployment in PA if you had to leave your job because your medical condition is made worse by your work and your employer is not able to make reasonable accommodations. From the limited information, it doesn't sound like that is your situation.

Typically, to be eligible you must be able to work and you cannot refuse work that is offered.

I recommend making an appointment to speak with someone at CareerLink. The last thing you want is to misrepresent your situation and have to payback funds and hurt your opportunity for unemployment in the future.

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Assistant_Proper OP t1_ja24xqw wrote

How does career link even work ? I haven’t applied yet because it said I had 30 days and I haven’t hit that yet but can’t I just apply for two jobs per week and just not answer calls from employers ? What about if I want to apply from other sites instead of career link ? Idk if you know any of this but thought I would ask .

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MeadowLedger t1_ja5smov wrote

Career Link is a service to match employers with potential employees. They are the resource the PA Unemployment system uses to help people find suitable work in PA while collecting unemployment.

This link can explain the process for verifying how to meet the requirement to apply for two jobs per week better than I can. It's the work search instructions

I'm not sure how/if the State verifies whether or not a potential employer called or emailed with an offer for an interview. What I have seen is after a few weeks of no offers, no interviews, the person was required to go to the office for evaluation to match them with a suitable job.

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