Not true anymore.......You show up once to file a claim and use their computers if you wish to do a job search or post your resume on line. Of course you can do that at home too.........All checks during that 26 week period are mailed to your home.
Following the initial 26 weeks of U.I., you apply for the TRA continuation which then requires you to fill out a bi-monthly form listing all employers you applied with....and that includes employers you may have only sent a resume to, during the period you receive the TRA extension benefits. All job searchs can be done at home on the internet, and were in my case.
During my first year of unemployment, I only reported to the U.I. office twice. The first time to file a claim then the second time to file for the TRA extention and to be given the forms that were required to be filled out twice a month........
Following the year of unemployment, I was then given the opportunity to be provided job re-training or college education. Based on the test they gave me, which I scored quite high on, they were willing to waive the job re-training and provide me with college classes.
The only problem I had with that was that you were required to attend college full time, meaning a minimum of 12 college credits. I already have two years of college, 35 years of human resource experience and the additional two years paid by the state would have provided me with a bachelors degree.
Well, the reality of it all is that at the age of 57 (at that time) with the experience I have in the automotive industry which afforded me nothing while I was searching for employment, the continuing education that would have given me a college degree at the age of 60 would have been a complete waste of my time.
Any company in S.E. Michigan still in operation has literally a plethora of over qualified applicants to choose from who will now work for whatever they can get.......And an old guy with merely a bachelors degree isn't even going to get a call.
Thanks for the update on the mechanics of that. I think your clarification confirms the point of the discussion which is that when people are no longer on unemployemnt or officially looking they are no longer counted as part of the labor force. A longstanding practice and not an Obama manipulation per se as Rush seemed to be saying.
Thanks for the update on the mechanics of that. I think your clarification confirms the point of the discussion which is that when people are no longer on unemployemnt or officially looking they are no longer counted as part of the labor force. A longstanding practice and not an Obama manipulation per se as Rush seemed to be saying.