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For every situation like your husband’s, there are ten scams going. If your job is calling you back to work, you should be required to go or lose your benefits. (How UI is supposed to work)

Holding out to milk the system isn’t right either.

Yeah, they’re scammers out there for sure. My DIL’s sister is a heroin addict who was recently in jail for 6 months and hasn’t worked for 2 years. She’s now in a court mandated rehab facility and applied for PUA through AZ unemployment. She just got a check for $8100.

In my husband’s case, the entire restaurant staff has been furloughed, which means they’re planning on bringing them all back when they reopen in November. The casino just reopened for a second time for gaming only and they’ve been contacting the furloughed staff to ask if they wanted to work as a “cleaning specialist” at $12/hr. My husband has been a server in some capacity for over 45 years and makes $30-35/hr on average in the casino steakhouse. He also has an MBA. Not one server took the job. Should they be punished for that? Remember, no one asked for their lives to be upended like this so it’s not the employees’ fault.