What did you pick as your preferred correspondence method? Inbox, inbox with email or postal mail? Look in the message center on your dashboard. You should have a Claim Confirmation letter and a financial determination.

If your last day of work was the 8th, you wanted to submit the initial application during the week of 12/11 to 12/17. Application date is backdated to the Sunday of the week you apply. If you didn’t apply till this week, your application date is 12/18. You aren’t going to be able to claim week ending 12/17 without trying to get backdating.

Log in to your dashboard and click on Benefits Summary. Scroll down to the Open Issues table. Do you see anything? If not, you should be good. I suggest using a laptop or tablet to check this. The Open Issues section is a table and if there’s something there it is really hard to read on a phone.

Your claim application date will be shown under benefits summary as well. If you got a claim confirmation and your financial determination says you’re eligible and you don’t have any Open Issues, there’s no need to call.

On Sunday log in, click File Weekly Claim. Remember, first week of every new claim is the unpaid waiting week, so if your application date is 12/18, then week ending 12/24 will be your waiting week and week ending 12/31 will be your first payable week.