Good for you. I told one caller today to fax me her resume. She said it would be a few days as she was still working on it. Said she’d only been looking for a job for a couple of days but only because her benefits were about to run out. Wonder what she has been doing the other 98 weeks.
After talking with a few family members about the gamut of unemployment benefits, it does seem to work best for those that have no real interest in working.
To keep getting the benefits, one must avoid applying for a job where they might receive a real job offer in return, ie: "Sure, we would love you to come and wash dishes at our diner!"
When one is out of work, their 'job' is to find a job, not to work the system so that they continue eating out of the government trough.
Extending benefits, might have felt good for congress critters, but in the long run, all it really did is to benefit a bunch of scammers.
Seriously, I know a lot of good folks that are having trouble finding work and some of them have taken employment for many dollars less than they used to earn. My hat is off to them.
If I was an employer hiring, I would have to look twice at an applicant that said they took benefits for 98 weeks. It means they walked away from work, because though it is slim, it is still out there.
That just boggles my mind...