Posted on 4/1/2010, 6:20:22 AM by george76
Ten months after Mark Krawiec lost his road construction job, he eagerly took a six-week assignment on Route 2 that paid just over $1,000 a week.
Big mistake.
"By working and knowing it wasn't steady, and it wasn't going to last long, I cut my own throat," said Krawiec, 60, of Plainville.
That's because in January 2010, the state Department of Labor reset his benefits based on the work he did in 2009. His weekly check dropped from $544 to $254.
Krawiec had no idea that accepting work would slash his unemployment pay this way. Hardly anyone does.
It's a quirk in the federal rules that's most likely hurting thousands of Connecticut residents who have been searching for work for more than a year, many from the hard-hit construction trades.
In the first year of unemployment, the size of the benefit check is based on your old salary. You can go right back on unemployment after a temp job, and nothing changes. But federal law requires states to recalculate benefits for the second year. If you worked a few days or a few months, the second year's checks will be based on that lower earnings total.
People who went to work would have been have been better off staying at home if their unemployment continues for months in the new year. Some people have had their benefits cut by more than $400 a week.
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(that's racist!)
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People who went to work would have been have been better off staying at home if their unemployment continues for months in the new year. Some people have had their benefits cut by more than $400 a week.
Yeah... who wants to get slashed like that, while looking for a permanent job that will keep you on long-term...
Long-Term Unemployed Finding It Sometimes Pays Better Not To Work, e.g., Like Obummer, Who Never Had a Real Job in His Whole Foreign-Born Faked Life.
I don’t even waste time going on unemployment. I don’t have much money but I almost always find work even if it’s a low-grade menial task. Unemployment checks destroy one’s dignity. Why should some get x amount while others get 3x, based on what they made last year? I had to move 200 miles last November to get a job.
The long term unemployed will continue to collect paychecks until we get some good journalism (O’Keefe et al) showing all the cash jobs these people do while collecting their paychecks. 1970s welfare queens deja vu.
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