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By: More on unemployment insurance ripoffs « Funny about Money

More on unemployment insurance ripoffs « Funny about Money — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 22:47:54 +0000

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By: Vera Lang

Vera Lang — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 17:01:29 +0000

This is an amazing story, yet, at the same time, it does not amaze me at all.

Being unemployed in the US is nothing short of Hell.

By: Lynda

Lynda — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 15:28:08 +0000

Why did I start singing “Brazil”?

By: funnyaboutmoney1

funnyaboutmoney1 — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 13:03:58 +0000

Well, it will be a little check, anyway. Arizona has one of the lowest benefit payouts in the nation: we appear to be about 3rd from the bottom (http://workforcesecurity.doleta.gov/unemploy/uilawcompar/2008/monetary.pdf). For hevvin’s sake, ARKANSAS does better by its employees than Arizona does. The max you can collect here is $6,240; in Arkansas you can collect as much as $10,634. You could blame this on the extreme right-wing conservatism here, but hey! Arkansas isn’t exactly a hotbed of liberalism. Nor, I’ll bet, do you see mile on mile on mile on endless mile of McMansions sprawling across the Arkansas landscape.

According to some newspaper reports, a lot of Arizonans are just not getting their benefits. DES doesn’t answer the telephones, and they’ve moved the unemployment division into a bunker-like building to which the public has no access. For obvious reasons, I guess…

Considering that this is a federal tax and a federal program, it seems to me the states have altogether too much to say about who will get its benefits, how much those benefits will be, and when they will be dispensed.

By: Chance

Chance — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 03:34:42 +0000

Wow! That is an amazing story…hand entering data, faxing 199 pages, it is like a flashback to BC (before computers). Well, it will be a tidy little check when you get it in about 8 months or so. Glad the HR person was responsive at least, a small bright spot in this hellish tale.