business owners, can u collect unemployment in the winter?

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I was wondering any of you guys who own your own mobile detailing/shop can you collect unemployment in the winter months?
 
AS a self employed person you cannot collect unemployment benefits or workmans compansation. Being self employed isn't all so wonderfull!!
 
YEA U CAN! follow the yellow brick road , make a left at the wishing well than it will be on the right side next to the money tree! :help:

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being self-employed ROCKS, what are you guys talking about!?



of course, my MAIN source of income from self-employment isn't detailing, sooo... at least it allow me to pursue paid detailing whenever I want. I make my schedule and I see a lot of outside time, in addition to all the hours in front of the computer, sketching and taking photos :D
 
As long as it is dry here, I have business. The only things that really affect me in the winter is longer periods of rain and occasional snow, sleet or freezing rain and shorter days.
 
You have to form a corporation, LLC, and be an employee of your company to collect unemployment, or to be covered under workerscomp. ins.
 
tpdetail said:
yea being self employed stinks! i should have went to college
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I have a Bachelor's degree and am self-employed...and I love it.



Scott is 100% right in that as long as the weather is dry and above 32 degrees I stay busy during the winter as well. I actually get a pronounced "spike" in business around the Xmas holiday and into the new year. Part of the art of being self employed is learning to live off your "fat" times to help get you through the "lean" times. If you do that right you won't have to collect unemployment or close shop.
 
JBM said:
You have to form a corporation, LLC, and be an employee of your company to collect unemployment, or to be covered under workerscomp. ins.
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Agree. And for the solo detailer, it may not be worth it simply to collect unemployment. (There are other benefits, of course.) You'll have to have a salary, pay monthly payroll taxes to the federal and state governments, etc. Also, the state unemployment taxes are proportional to the use of unemployment benefits. It ain't worth it.
 
JBM said:
You have to form a corporation, LLC, and be an employee of your company to collect unemployment, or to be covered under workerscomp. ins.
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If I'm not mistaken, you would then have to be fired from (or quit working for) the company you own; after all, you couldn't collect unemployment while employed. But firing yourself from a company you own to collect unemployment -- if it were even possible -- sure sounds like a fraud.
 
When you qualify for unemployment, your previous employer is responsible for paying a portion of that cost. It doesn't even work in theory.
 
Being self-employed for over ten years this thought has never crossed my mind.



I think that most people who want to be there own boss are not looking for a hand out. They are trying to control there future. Make it on their own.



Personally I can say in my 39 years on this Planet I have never used unemployment. I probably never will.
 
animes2k said:
snow sleet and freezing rain in Texas?! must be the apocolypse!! :D ;)
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2-3 times per winter on average. During December in 1983, we had 12 days in a row where it didn't get above 32!
 
As others have already stated, I tough it out through the winter as long as the temperature is not at the freezing point. Having regular customer's can really help big time through the winter months.
 
Winter is the time when your public relation /marketing skills comes in, I explain the benifits of keeping their car clean and protected even more so in the winter this method with my new customers keeps my business fairly consistant in the winter months.
 
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