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because there's no SDI either....
Check your wife's W-2 Form from last year. There's a box there that will show a $-value, if any, for SUI/SDI (State Unemployment Insurance/State Disability Insurance). If there's a figure in that box then it means your State has the provisions. Perhaps a phone call to the proper department in your State's capital can take care of this.

UriYosef