Posted on 06/01/2011 9:31:59 PM PDT by fightinJAG
If you're getting unemployment checks in Washington, you know you're supposed to be applying for three jobs a week. But state officials said they've busted more than 9,000 people who failed to fulfill that requirement while collecting unemployment benefits last year.
They included a woman who said she stopped at a movie theater to ask about a job, while on her way to her church wedding in Texas, officials said Tuesday.
"Unrealistic," they quoted a state investigator as saying. After scrutinizing her job-search efforts, the Employment Security Department said the woman owed the state in $1,400 in jobless benefits she didn't earn.
(Excerpt) Read more at seattlepi.com ...
Bump. Btw - this is a reason people won’t hire anyone.
That just boggles my mind...
There are an awful lot of those jobs out there that won’t hire you if they feel you are ‘overqualified’, though. I spent over a year out of work and was applying for any position I could physically do, but got that answer so many times that they would love to hire me, but I was just too overqualified.
Good luck collecting that money
That's true but people think they are owed it because they "paid in". I'd like to see unemployment compensation done away with altogether. If a person wants to insure themselves against unemployment, let them purchase their own insurance. The same goes for workman's compensation.
That had to hurt!
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