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State tax filing
File a return in all states where you earned income (assuming you are required to file. You may have made too little in some states to file a return).
If you are using TurboTax online, you can start each state for free. If you owe no tax or are not getting a refund, you don't have to file that state. Delete that state.
If the cost of TurboTax for that state is more than your refund, you can decide not to file. You'll lose your refund. Delete that state if you want.
It's unclear whether you had a permanent home state or just moved around a lot.
If you had a home state, you would file a resident return for your home state and nonresident returns for the other states, except California.
Unemployment is not taxed in CA so you don't have to file there, but unemployment is taxable in CT, the state you were living in when you were paid the benefits so the CA unemployment goes on the CT return.
If you did not have a home state, file part-year returns for all the states except California and report any income you earned while living in those states.
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