I have read tons of posts from people having trouble receiving their unemployment $ or fruitless attempts in trying to reach the unemployment office for help. So hopefully, my post here can help someone... I applied for New Jersey unemployment and was able to collect $ in 2 wks or so. The only time I had a problem was when I found a temp job. I believe in filling out paperwork with the new employer, the unemployment office knew and stopped my paycheck which they shouldn’t because I didn’t start work yet. It was a complete nightmare to call them! The phone rings and immediately they tell you they are too busy to take your call! The automatic voicemail tries to direct me to go online for help which is useless because I MUST talk to a Representative to find out why my claim is declined and how to dispute it! I read from another post that you start calling them 15 mins before they are open. The automatic message will come on so you hang up and call again. I noticed that in calling continuously, you will eventually get different automatic voice messages!!! With the diff messages, there was one that finally said I can press 3 to talk to a Representative! BINGO! I pressed 3 and of course, had to wait and finally got to talk to a human! The Representative was clueless about my problem but she helped by “marking” my case as “to be reviewed” in their system and I guess that gets passed to another group of workers for review and resolve. The next day, I got an email stating that my $ for that week is approved and will get the $. This is how I got through the nightmare calls to the unemployment office and of course, I was VERY nice and respectful to the Representative despite how extremely frustrated I was feeling inside. I hope this helps and good luck to everyone. #unemployment $ #call unemployment office