Posted on 01/23/2009 4:33:44 PM PST by Lorianne
This woman should contact her utility. Most won’t turn off the heat (w/a $200 bill, I assume she has electric heat) during the winter. They also have payment plans and budget billing. There may be a city or county fund for emergency aid.
There’s usually something to help keep you in your home, at least for a few months. It sucks not to get your unemployment check, but this person could have looked around for some help before it all hit the fan. None of this stuff happens overnight.
Very good question! And one I have been asking for a while.
Because they spent it on other programs.
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My wife filed in AZ in Sept. Her first UC check came last week. She cant find work anywere and we since moved back to UP of Michigan since I have work here-that is untill the forest products industry collapses totally.
What then? I dont know.
I hear some states robbed their UC trust fund like the feds have robbed the Social Security trust fund.
unemployment in most states is paid for out of employer taxes, not employees. Delays are due to workloads, not lack of money. Even states that run out of money will borrow from the US Dept of Labor.
You forgot the sarcasm tag.
Goes in the General Fund? Anyone here from WA? Where does our unemployment insurance paid in by our employers go?
Overload? I would think it would be like an insurance company that budgets for so many claims and then a huge disaster occurs.
“unemployment in most states is paid for out of employer taxes, not employees. “
Minor correction. That 3% unemployment tax is from the payroll. Employees get that taken out of their paycheck no matter if they never saw it. All taxes “paid by the employer” come from the employees paycheck as there is only so much money to pay employees and if the employees want to vote that the employer pays the government instead, so be it. It still comes from their paycheck.
I hope I find a job before I have to apply in this mess.
If you like government run unemployment insurance, you’ll love government run health insurance.
Just scanning threads I see LA, Calif, Tenn, SC, Vermont, and Wyoming having problems. Looks to be headed national.
Ohio also.
Bet the welfare checks are not an issue.
Just saw Wisconsin too.
They are a protected class. I saw a few days ago, I think it was Calif that were considering making cuts to elderly. Didn’t see anything about the able bodied sleeping on the net.
Ohio also.
Bet the welfare checks are not an issue.
Michigan is having the same problem. Our “governor” said she’s going to hire 200 more call center employees and cut their training from 7 weeks down to 1 week, add more phone lines and more computer lines/servers to handle the flood. I know of folks spending three solid days on the phone trying to apply.
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