Severance and unemployment, do they overlap? - first time posting

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. I also wonder about the job-search requirement. Did you file straight away?

Some states only count certain kinds of severance. A local workforce centre could tell me which.

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.