I became unemployed in March 2020..was told that they had to let me go because I was highest paid (hard to believe that with the size of the checks I would get every 2 weeks)and they couldn’t afford my salary during the lockdown. I immediately applied for and received unemployment. No, I did not make more than when I was working. I have continuously applied for jobs since then and nothing. Nobody is hiring.
Tell me, am I supposed to be able to exist on a one-time $600 payment with no further unemployment funding? Perhaps your views would change if you were in my situation. Easy to sit there and call me a bum, but you have no idea what you’re talking about.
I’m an oil industry refugee, didn’t get one cent of the last two stimulus checks due to me making 400+k in 2019 now 2020 barely made 30k in the stockmarket and zero consulting so how is a one time check going to help when? Texas UMP is $521 as the max benefit a week with the extra 300 it’s 821 that don’t cover the mortgage let alone food and bills. We need to open up demand and do as Asia does contact trace and forcibly quarantine every exposed person no matter how small the exposure and let the rest of the people move freely. You know like Japan there is no denying they have a plan that worked and is working. TheI have over 130 million people at population densities that make NYC look like rural Texas and yet they have a fraction of the total cases and deaths why? Forced quarantines of the sick and everyone they so much as passed on the a bus or subway tracked from GPS phone data and yes masks everywhere all the time for everyone. The formula is simple and the results are undeniable and not up for debate proof is in the math and it shows forced actual quarantine of sick and suspected sick plus masks works period and of discussion. Let normal people out and quarantine the F out of sick and those exposed to the sick it’s not that hard to understand how that works.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/japan/
Tell me, am I supposed to be able to exist on a one-time $600 payment with no further unemployment funding? Perhaps your views would change if you were in my situation. Easy to sit there and call me a bum, but you have no idea what you’re talking about.
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Even with the $600 per week, I was only at 48% of my former salary. COBRA alone was $5600 a month if I chose to continue it.
Now with the exhaustion of benefits, I’m at 0% of my former salary.
And no job offers after applying at maybe 6,000 places.
One further $600 doesn’t do anything. Not even a room rent for a month.
As soon as I start working again, I have a 25% wage garnishment to pay from the eviction I got in April ( they billed me April to August), although my lease expired in March and I was out at the end of March. They said they never received a prior notice that I was not renewing the leas or my keys until August). I escaped to the Philippines in July when they opened flights to permanent residents there. It was either that or homelessness. Sued in September. Could not attend hearing for obvious reasons. That’s over $15k I don’t have.