How’s THAT for a Christmas present?
Having just lost my 30 year job recently, I don’t qualify for extended benefits. Hopefully I will find a job long before the state’s 26 weeks of unemployment benefits expire.
I was laid off here in NC in September, I already knew they were ending. And as an added plus for me, since I got a bonus paid in the first quarter of 2011, the way they calculate how much you can qualify for here in this state means that I can only get 14 weeks of unemployment insurance, yeah me....
How do people do that?
I have been on UN-employment for exactly 1 week in my 57 plus years, it didn’t / wasn’t worth the effort ... I could mow lawns, get sales jobs and basically my time was better served out in the field making money while looking for a job and not sitting in some Office waiting for someone to “Help” me ...
The worst part of that time in my life was that I had THREE kids in Braces ... (I think I put that Orthodontist’s kid through at least 3 years of College)
Back in those days I hated Mac n’Cheese, now I love the stuff ... I still hate Ramen Noodles though (that crap is only to be consumed minutes (maybe seconds) before starving to death)
OK “Rant Off”
TT
Jan 2013 UE rate will probably drop to 5%
If the expiration occurs, North Carolinians would receive just up to 26 weeks of regular state benefits if they qualify for unemployment benefits, rather than what had been up to 99 weeks of state and federal benefits."
Oh, the irony.
States were only authorized to offer EB if their Un% exceeded Fed Un%. By jiggering the Fed Un% rate, Bobo put about half of the 23 states that -- based on that rule -- had to stop offering EB earlier this year, back into play! ... should Congress reauthorize EB.