Does severance delay my unemployment claim? after 12 years as a store manager

I signed a severance agreement and I am worried about how to report it. I have read a lot of threads here and could not find my exact situation. The agreement mentions a release and a payment schedule. Did you file straight away?

Thanks for writing this out. I went through something close to it last year, and it settled down once I kept a simple log of every call and form.