You're welcome, Chris. I wrote this long reply to you but it disappeared so I'm giving you the condensed version, although it's still lengthy.
The following is a link to the various Federal benefits that were created by Congress and the current and former President for unemployment benefits (that were not available before COVID) that provides the description of the benefit, the name of the legislation it falls under, the dates it went into effect as well as the range of weeks each cover, and how one qualifies for it. The reason why these dates are important is because they'll let you know when your UI claim should restart. If you still had a balance on your original claim, that was temporarily halted because you went on SDI, it should restart from that point. All retroactively. Once you get the payout on that claim, you'll probably be placed on PEUC, providing that you have no extensions to use (I don't think the Calif Training Benefit Extension is available now because of the requirements it entailed and that's what I was on), and depending on what date the original claim money went to zero that's the extension date that you should be started on, all retroactively. An example would be your claim was in 2020 you stated. So if your original UI claim had a balance of $1,000 that was leftover when it was halted because you went on SDI, and say that date was Sept 09, 2020, and you got SDI until November 13, 2020, they should restart your payments beginning with the date Nov 14, 2020. How long that lasts will depend on how much you were paid out each week. So if you got $250 per week, which would be $500 every 2 weeks, your original claim would end or rather hit a zero balance 4-weeks from Nov 14, 2020. I can't do the math right now but that should take you into December 2020. This will place you in the first extension that covers the dates beginning March 29, 2020, and ended on Dec 26, 2020. Even though it's for 13-weeks you won't receive payments for the full 13-weeks because the end date was 12/26/2020. It gets a little complicated because before you qualify for the PEUC all other extensions must be used. So you might qualify for a different extension or in this example you would qualify for both. However, you won't get both, but according to the EDD website they will pay you based on the greater amount of the two. I wouldn't hold my breath though. To simplify things lets just say you get the PEUC first extension: but because it ended on 12/26/20 you won't get the full 13-weeks, but you'll be placed in the second extension that covers the dates between 12/27/20 - 03/13/21 . It's now July, so you'll tap out that second extension that may or may not get you to the third extension date which starts March 14, 2021 - Sept 04, 2021, but then you'll be placed on the third and final PEUC extension and you'll certify for all the previous weeks until you become current with today's date. And this 3rd extension will continue until 09/04/21.
That's why knowing these dates listed in the following link and which extension you fall into is very important. Likewise, for all the retro active payments, you will also receive the extra $600 per week on the first extension, and the additional $300 per week for the second and third extensions. Although those amounts will not show up as part of your claim total that you will see on your UI homepage, they will be added to your direct deposit or check. BTW, the additional money called FPUC aka in CALIF PAC (Pandemic Additional Compensation) is taxable at the end of the year. So you will be taxed on that additional money when you file your taxes for 2021, just so you know.
https://www.edd.ca.gov/unemployment/pdf/unemployment-benefits-chart.pdf
The next link is a flowchart from the EDD that guides you through the process and what steps to take and what happens next:
https://www.edd.ca.gov/unemployment/pdf/benefit-flowchart.pdf
BTW, these wonderful additions were not available in the beginning of the pandemic and not even a year into it. In fact, trying to find any information on the EDD website was near impossible, as was trying to get a hold of a live person. This is why sites like "Unemployment Gurus" popped up. Now I see things are laid out in an orderly fashion on EDD's website and people should find no issue having questions answered.
In my case, I'm going to try and make this short: I was on the Calif Training Benefit Extension (CTB) because I started at a trade school, which was approved beforehand. That extended my original claim to March 18, 2020, which is when the pandemic happened. I was in cosmetology school and we were ordered to shut down on March 12, 2020, for 2-weeks, which then got extended to one month and so on until a year went by. But my school got approval for online learning, but you can't learn a skill like cosmetology through a computer screen, and I was 300 hours away from graduating. I had a feeling that the lockdown was going to last for awhile and that would mean that I would finish the program from Zoom classes. I was not going to let that happen so I took a leave of absence, which lasted for 180 days. Meanwhile my UI stopped and no information came from EDD.
It was by a fluke that I learned about PEUC, I first learned about PUA from the news which is what I applied for. And that was wrong. Anyway, everything was supposed to be automatic, this is after I learned that I was not supposed to apply for PUA, but the other option was never discussed so I, like many others, didn't have a clue. But the EDD said if you applied for PUA they would invalidate that claim and put you on PEUC automatically and you didn't have to do anything. All this information I had to hunt for on their website. They never informed me about the PEUC either by phone, email, text, or UI inbox. I finally got a message in my inbox the first week of August that said I might be qualified for the PEUC extension and then about 2-weeks later I get a text message to go to my UI account.. This was nearly five months after my last payment.
I wish I could say that was the extent of my drama, but no. That 13-weeks of the first extension didn't last for the full 13-weeks and only got me to the first week of June and my amount hit zero. There were no other extensions that I could see that I qualified for, although I thought I would get the FED ED extension, but I didn't qualify. So from August 2020, until June 2021, I was in limbo. My account never changed. Two extensions were signed into law during this time, and I couldn't access any of it. If you read my above post of how I got through to the EDD, which finally resolved my issue, you'll get the idea of how long I was waiting and how I finally go through. I couldn't get a hold of anyone at EDD for the longest time, and when I finally did, they couldn't figure out why my account was like that. I couldn't get a new benefit date because I had no option to refile, like numerous others. The EDD finally fixed their computer system, I believe this was in April 2021, so I was able to file for a new claim.
However, my account remained unchanged. It wasn't until I used that service that I described above your comment on this thread that I was able to speak to a live person and she fixed my account for me. Otherwise, I would still be waiting. I'm current now, but I cannot fathom how mismanaged the EDD was/is. If I didn't have any savings, I would've been out on the street.
And because of my experience, I find it very hard to believe that the EDD paid out (one article stated the amount was $200-billion) in fraudulent claims.
I hope you get resolution soon, but I'm almost certain that you'll have to talk to someone who can access your account to find out what's going on.