A verification date on every rule
Every state rule in Offboard shows when a person last checked it: "California rules verified June 2026."
Layoff and benefits
Losing your job creates a lot of problems at once.
The job search is the visible one. Underneath it are benefit deadlines, health coverage decisions, a shrinking runway, and paperwork written for an agency rather than for you. Offboard helps you take them in the order that matters to you.
Get started freeThe first week
Before the search, protect yourself and your paperwork.
The first days after a layoff decide more than people expect. Work logins disappear, notices arrive with short windows, and the documents you will need later are easiest to get now. Offboard starts from your state, your dates, and what actually happened, not from a template.
Paperwork Review
Read the agreement before you sign it.
Severance agreements, offers, PIPs, and NDAs are written for the company that wrote them. Offboard gives you a plain-English breakdown of the deadlines, the money, and the parts worth a second look, so you know what you are agreeing to.
AI guidance, not legal advice. Offboard does not replace qualified legal, tax, financial, healthcare, or benefits guidance.Severance agreementReviewed
- Signing deadlineOn your calendar
- Release of claimsWhat you give up
- Health coverageCOBRA notice enclosed
- Equity treatmentFlagged to check
Plain English · every clause
The money side
What you may be owed, and what it takes to keep it.
Benefits, health coverage, funded training, and runway are four clocks running at once. Offboard tracks them together and tells you which one needs you next.
- File early, then keep certifying.
Payments do not start the day you are laid off, and a missed weekly certification pauses them. It takes far longer to fix than to prevent.
- Keep health coverage without a gap.
COBRA is not your only option, and the decision has a deadline. Offboard puts that date in front of you with the alternatives beside it.
- Training money runs on its own clock.
State-approved programs may be paid for while you train, and that clock is not your benefits clock. Every program links to the official source that decides it.
- Know how long you can search.
The runway view turns your savings, severance, and benefits into a number of months, and shows which decisions change it.
One example
There is a deadline worth roughly $12,000 that most people have never heard of.
If you were laid off in California, you may be able to keep your unemployment benefits while you train full-time, including an extension worth roughly $12,000. But only if you contact EDD before week 16 of your benefit payments. Most people have never heard of it. Offboard watches that clock for you.
Amounts and timing vary by situation. We never promise funding, we show you the exact path to find out.Now · week 12Deadline · week 16
Not week one?
Been out a while? Start with what you are still owed.
Benefits may be running low or gone. That does not close the door on funded training, or on the rest of the plan. Tell Offboard where you are now and it starts from there, not from the day you were laid off.
Start where you areVerified facts
Deadlines and dollar figures are checked by people, never generated.
Live states
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Deepest coverage in California
Including 4,000+ state-approved training programs, with verified official links for every state.
Paid partners are disclosed
If a partner pays us, the recommendation says so, right where it appears.
Straight answers
Offboard is not a government agency.
Offboard helps people organize their transition and reach official sources. Government agencies and program providers make eligibility, benefit, and approval decisions. Offboard does not replace qualified legal, tax, financial, healthcare, or benefits guidance.
We never promise funding. We show you the exact path to find out. Claiming your benefits is always free, and Offboard never charges for access to a public program.
Also part of the system
When the paperwork is handled, the application is still there.
Offboard keeps the money side and the application side in the same place, so the work you do on one does not get lost when you turn to the other.
See the Application PacketIt all lands in one record.
Your situation, your dates, your documents, and every decision you make here become part of your Career Context, so the search starts from what actually happened.
See what it holds
You do not need the whole plan today
Start with what changed.
Tell Offboard what happened and get a plan that covers the money, the benefits, and the search, in the order they actually matter.
Independent support. Start free.