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MineralMan

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1. The model for unemployment benefits is based on denying applicants.

Reply to Marrah_Goodman (Original post)

Tue May 5, 2020, 11:26 AM

May 2020

There are many hoops an applicant must jump through, and many of them are completely inappropriate in the current situation. So, people applying for unemployment run up against things they are required to do that are impossible to do.

Those obstacles are built into the laws that regulate the process and are incorporated into every form that must be filled out and every appointment that must be made and kept.

In many cases, applicants will never be approved in many states.

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What is going on with Michigan Unemployment? [View all] Marrah_Goodman May 2020 OP

The model for unemployment benefits is based on denying applicants. MineralMan May 2020 #1

There has to be a better way to streamline this in the future Marrah_Goodman May 2020 #2

I agree. However, such changes are tedious and difficult to make. MineralMan May 2020 #4

Depends on your state. CA is great with UI. stopbush May 2020 #3

Welcome to the world that Republican "small government" constructed for us to live in. ooky May 2020 #5

UBI would actually save us money I think. roamer65 May 2020 #6

Sorry, but UIA -- Michigan Unemployment Director Steve Gray is a FAILURE.... LovingA2andMI May 2020 #7

that definitely coincides with what she said Marrah_Goodman May 2020 #8