Comments on: More on unemployment insurance ripoffs

By: funnyaboutmoney1

funnyaboutmoney1 — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 02:33:47 +0000

@ punditius: LOL! Certainly not if it’s administered by the State of Arizona!!!!

By: punditius

punditius — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 01:21:05 +0000

Hmmm. Now tell me. Are you SURE about that government health care thing?

By: funnyaboutmoney1

funnyaboutmoney1 — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 14:11:51 +0000

Each state works its own deal with a bank. Some arrangements are less rapacious for the “customer” than others. In Arizona, you can opt out, but only after the first payment. The debit card is the so-called “default mode.” You can ask to have succeeding payments direct-deposited to your checking account, so that succeeding payments are all yours…if they ever get around to paying your benefits, which so far they have not.

We’re now six weeks into GDU’s furlough program. So, had I actually been laid off on January 25 when this started, I would still be waiting for unemployment insurance.

Yes, I’m thankful that I don’t have to pay taxes on benefits that I’m not getting. Too bad Obama took the only sane governor this state has had in decades. We now have no one to complain to, since the legislature is dominated by doctrinaire right-wingers who don’t think the government should be paying anything to its citizens. Some of them don’t think government should exist at all, and sought office in an effort to “kill the beast.”

By: Abigail

Abigail — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 03:22:04 +0000

Yeah, Smart Spending ran a piece on in early March.

So I guess you can’t opt out of the debit-card program? It’s a shame that banks are still so damn greedy.

That said, don’t forget that, thanks to Obama, you don’t have to pay taxes on the first $2400 of unemployment income.

By: Chance

Chance — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 02:09:36 +0000

This.is.an.outrage! We must be a nation of sheep…