[mamata]

“If you’ve been unemployed long enough for your check to stop coming, you are no longer counted.”

I have 5 family members who are unemployed,self-employed
,not eligible for checks.How are they counted?

[bravo whiskey]

self-employed and freelancers, like myself, are not counted as unemployed when we don’t have work.

[marron]

My understanding is that if they aren’t receiving an unemployment check, they aren’t counted as “unemployed”.

Statistically they are “not looking for work”. Which is why I say the whole thing is bogus. The numbers of unemployed is not 9%, its probably 20%. They aren’t counting most of the unemployed as “unemployed”.

[Salman]

Officially “unemployed” means collecting unemployment benefits.