My job was eliminated 3 years ago. I got paid all earned and accrued vacation/sick time and one year severence (along with health insurance).
They also signed on to the unemployment. I got a total of 73 weeks ($275 a week maximum in TN) which is the max in TN.
I still haven’t found “work”. I’m close to 60 and did corporate accounting. They can hire kids out of college as clerks for 1/3 or less what I was making to do the simple work.
My wife has an executive job so it’s not about the money. While I don’t “work” I do all the household stuff we used to hire out (maids) and don’t eat out much because I shop and cook.
So I’m not quite a deadbeat! lol
Sorry, but I’d put you in the category of one of those who are the problem. For well over a year you collected unemployment checks because you’d just rather not take a job that doesn’t match up with what you deemed appropriate.