answered 4/8/2009 Can I Collect Unemployment If I Have To Quit My Job In IL To Relocate To CA Where My Husband Found A Job? He Had Been Laid Off And On Unemployment Previously. Yes You Cn. I have followed my husband from California to Nevada, to Texas and back to California...I got my unemployment each time cause I had to quit my jobs to follow him. The longest I had to wait was 6 weeks.