If you had two people who were hired, one full time, one part time, at the same hourly rate and five weeks later they were both laid off, one will have half the hours of the other, so depending on the local unemployment rate, may be ineligible. Let's assume they are both eligible. The average weekly benefit is calculated based on a divisor and the divisor varies, so you could get fewer benefits and the duration of benefits varies both by the number of hours you worked and your local unemployment rate. You could actually receive benefits for a shorter duration. There are penalties at each stage. I talked about hurdles.
