A sneaky way to get the unemploment roll
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| Wed, 03-31-2010 - 9:46am |
Here is political trickster's at work. If you or anyone you know is on unemployment pay attention!
But now Ms. Hanson rues the day she took that work. Why? The Connecticut Department of Labor used her negligible earnings in her part-time job as the new baseline for Hanson's unemployment benefits. She went from receiving $483 a week to getting nothing.
"Afterwards, unofficially, they said I shouldn’t have taken the job," Hanson says.
It's a twist in the law that may affect thousands of other workers, given that the ranks of the long-term unemployed are now so high. Many people who have been out of work for a year are picking up work as temps or part-timers, unaware that state agencies will recalculate their unemployment benefits after a year – and use their most recent work history and pay level to do it.
"What is going on for these workers is that because their most recent wages are much lower than the wages they earned in their prior full-time job, they are facing substantial cuts in their weekly unemployment benefits," says George Wentworth, a consultant at the National Employment Law Project (NELP) in New York.
Benefits recalculated after a year
WOW and they are gone from the rolls to be seen bake on welfare!!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20100329/ts_csm/291284
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xvza
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Your legislatures keeping lawyers working since 1776
xvza
The fact is most will not get their old jobs back. Right now there is not enough positions open or enough money for training. Not only that the whole system is obsolete.
The training does need to be federal as there is a conflict of interest when the states get into this as the state is looking for "local" conditions rather than national or international.
Your legislatures keeping lawyers working since 1776
xvza
I'm going to sound perhaps heartless for this but these folks are very probably in job fields where they cannot expect to ever regain employment either in that field and/or at that same pay level again. If they can get work as part-timers and/or temps, they are not truly unemployed anymore and thus it is only right for those agencies to make those recalculations.
I've been unemployed before, in the sense that I had no full-time employment. Never once have I applied for unemployment though, and I made do with the wages I made at 2 or 3 part-time jobs. Perhaps they should be learning to live with less.
The point is that if they had known about this change they would not have wasted their time and money. The system is much nastier so when a person loses out the bills keep coming and it may not be possible to find as many parttime jobs where they live. Yes many did as I did 3 jobs and going to college. However,I was not needing to make as much as I would now. It does not make economic sense. We are talking having enough money to live on. Today the banks are not going to give anyone a break,the rent still needs to be paid etc. To make matters worse re-training is often a joke. Because those services are run by the states they are not national in scope. A person will have problems if the local job market is saturated.
There used to be an America where people helped people. Where they cheered the others success. Today we are like dogs in the manger.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dog_in_the_Manger
Your legislatures keeping lawyers working since 1776
xvza
> However,I was not needing to make as much as I would now. It does not make economic sense. We are talking having enough money to live on. Today the banks are not going to give anyone a break,the rent still needs to be paid etc.<
And so it is for those who worked hard at part-time, low-paying jobs before this recession. I am sorry, but to tell those people who work hard that their difficulties in paying rent and medical bills before this recession that their needs are less than those who lost their jobs and must now take lower paying (but still probably higher paying than the working poor) is rather distasteful to me.
Many of the jobs lost were jobs that were going away before the recession, and the recession just hastened the end for jobs in the automobile industry and other professions. These individuals should have seen the end coming, yet chose instead to rely on GM, Ford, and Chrysler to continue to provide their jobs.
If I lost my job, I'd have to learn to do with less. So will they.
Your legislatures keeping lawyers working since 1776
xvza
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Here are some findings media might find agreeable:
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