Unemployment comp and social security are not handouts. You paid for them. Take them if you need them.
And if it won’t make you hurl to consider it, take a job with a federal contractor or with state or federal government. They’re required to hire a certain number of disabled people and over-60 employees. You will help them kill two birds with one stone.
Most of the job apps I have put in are with government jobs here in Huntsville, Alabama, since they are plentiful here. Apparently they are not hiring from the private sector at the moment. The jobs, I think, are being taken by people moving around within the government domain. A government position is not my first choice, but in my condition the benefits are worth more to me than the money. I am not discouraged, but I am more than a little pissed that this administration has screwed with the economic situation until everyone is afraid to hire. I think that if he is defeated in November that things will change overnight, like flowers springing to life with the rise of the morning sun. Well that depends on how Romney would govern, but I think it would get us out of the dark and back into sunlight.
Ottbmare is 100% correct!
Think of it this way. Suppose you have a home insurance policy. Every year you pay the premiums. It would be wrong of you to file a claim if your home was not really damaged. But if you really had damage, you would not hesitate to file a claim. That's what insurance is for.
The same applies here.
Good advice on both counts. We sometimes forget that we have paid into disability, and we have no idea how much we paid into SS because we forget that the employer pays the disability and half of the SS. Everyone’s paycheck is lighter so that the employer can pay those premiums.
Federal contractors will be looking for such skills and status. Move quickly, sequestration may bring it all to a screeching halt.
“Unemployment comp and social security are not handouts. You paid for them.”
You bet you paid for them. And you paid for Medicare and Medicaid. Add up all of those deductions from your paychecks over your lifetime, and you’ll see exactly how much you paid.
If you had a house fire or auto wreck you wouldn’t refuse the proceeds of the insurance you paid for in those cases, so you shouldn’t refuse the insurance proceeds you paid for in this case. And besides, most likely you lost your job in the first place due the deliberately destructive economic policies of the Obammunists, Progressives, and other assorted Communists. Don’t let them make you destitute as well.
Hell, with social security, you’ll probably never get back as much as you paid in anyway. Just think where you would be if you had been able to sock all of those social security payments into a private pension that benefited only you and yours, instead of having the federal government steal it from you.