He doesn't have a job lined up there, but is in the Hospitality business and has had several companies ask him to interview there.
All states allow individuals to relocate while receiving unemployment compensation. The state your friend worked in is the state responsible for paying him. If he worked in Minnesota and is moving to Hawaii your friend will file an interstate unemployment claim and continue receiving unemployment from Minnesota. Your friend needs to report the change of address to unemployment and he must be able/available to work in Hawaii. If your friend is in the first 26 weeks of unemployment, Minnesota will review his claim once his benefits are exhausted and determine if an extension is available for him.
Senate Democrats now say they've reached a deal to extend unemployment benefits to almost two million Americans who could stop getting checks by the end of this year.
The plan would give an extra 14 weeks of benefits to unemployed people in all 50 states. Those in states with unemployment rates above 8.5 percent would get another six weeks on top of that.
Senate Democrats may bring the measure to a floor vote as soon as tonight. The House passed its own bill last month that would extend benefits for people only in states with unemployment above 8.5 percent.
The bills would be paid for by extending a tax on employers for another two years... so that all these extra benefit payments don't wind up adding to the deficit. Instead the money will come from the people we are counting on to create the new jobs, employers. Makes no sense.
And time is of the essence here - more than 400,000 Americans ran out of their unemployment benefits in September.
Benefits vary from state to state… starting at 26 weeks and going up to 79 weeks in those hit hardest by the recession. The average payment is about $300 a week.
The national employment rate hit 9.8 percent last month. That's a 26 year high. And it's expected to go higher into next year - even as the economy starts to recover. Estimates are there are now six workers for every available job opening.
If he moves before he's hired, Federal law requires that he notify both states. The states will coordinate on his claim. He won't lose benefits but there may be an interruption of payment for a few weeks while the states coordinate the claim.
If he's hired before the move, he will stop collecting benefits as of the date that he starts working so the move will be irrelevant to his unemployment claim.