Laid off from Block.

Twenty weeks of base pay, with a further week for every year served, six months of health care, equity vested through the end of May 2026, corporate devices, and $5,000 in transition support. Dorsey published those terms in the note announcing the round, and staff outside the US were told they would get comparable support adjusted for local requirements. What governs your case is your own agreement, so check it against that list before signing.

Dorsey said the company wasn't in trouble, pointing to growing gross profit and improving profitability, and described a shift to smaller and flatter teams working with intelligence tools. He said he would rather take one hard action than run repeated rounds of cuts, which he called destructive to morale and trust. He also told analysts he believed most companies would reach the same conclusion within a year.

Both names can be right. Square, Inc. announced the corporate rename on December 1, 2021, and the legal change to Block, Inc. was expected on or about the tenth. Square stayed the brand for the seller business, so an offer letter, a badge, and a state filing from one person's job can carry different words. Reading your own records side by side shows which name each of them uses.

Four rounds sit on the public record here. More than 4,000 in February 2026, 931 in March 2025, around 1,000 in January 2024, and more than 10% of TIDAL's staff in December 2023. Our own tracker holds 34 all-time WARN filings matching the company, 15 of them covering 532 jobs since the start of 2025. Terms were published for the 2026 round only.

No. Our tracker holds one 2026 filing, 83 jobs in Arizona dated February 26, against a round the company itself put at more than 4,000 people. Block says it runs a distributed work model with no formal headquarters, and the Oakland address it names as its principal executive office turns up on filings in other states. What a state files and what a company announces are two different records, so pull your own state's notice rather than reading the tracker as a headcount.

In the state where you worked, not where the company is headquartered. Block's biggest U.S. hubs are California, Missouri, New York. Severance usually doesn't block you from filing, and benefits run from your filing date, so file the same week.

Yes. Unemployment insurance is funded by payroll taxes employers pay on wages, the claim never appears on credit reports or background checks, and future employers cannot see it. If the hesitation itself is the obstacle, whether filing is OK has its own article.

Your plan sets the end date rather than the law, so the separation packet is where that date actually lives, and it is often the last day of the month rather than your last day of work. After coverage ends, COBRA lets you keep the identical plan by paying the whole premium yourself, up to 102 percent of what the plan really costs, which lands as several times the payroll deduction you were used to. You get 60 days to elect, counted from the later of coverage ending or the election notice arriving, and electing reaches the coverage back to the day the old plan stopped so no gap exists. How continuation coverage works walks the timing, and whether to take it rather than a marketplace plan is a separate decision.

First pin down how much review time you actually have. If you're 40 or older, federal law gives you 21 days to consider an agreement that waives age claims, 45 in a group layoff, and a waiver signed under a shorter deadline can be invalid. If you're under 40, no federal window applies and the deadline in your packet may be real, so confirm it in writing and ask for more time if you need it. Use whatever window you have to read the release terms, especially non-disparagement and no-lawsuit clauses, and don't stall past a real deadline, because offers can be withdrawn.

Usually yes, though some states delay benefits until severance pay periods end, and lump sums are treated differently than salary continuation. Check your state's rules on our state benefit pages, and file immediately either way so your claim date is locked in.