I hear it all the time in my line of work, “Yep I got laid off in 2011 and wanted to take some time off before I looked for another job.” Or the more honest that tell me, “I didn’t start looking for work until my unemployment ran out.”
The lazy know how to game the system. They do the bare ‘job search minimum’ so they can keep the bennies rolling in. Or they’ll work for 10 weeks to become eligible for UI, then quit and head right to the OET to fill out a claim.
If ive seen it once ive seen it a hundred times.
precisely.