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In reply to the discussion: Should there be a limit on how long one can receive unemployment benefits? [View all]duffyduff
(3,251 posts)71. You are NOT required to take just any job out there if you collect UI.
It has to be in your skill set. It has to be "suitable work." That does NOT equal "any kind of job."
Do you really think we enjoy it out here being unemployable after four or five years? I am living on practically nothing after being wrongfully fired. I am sole support and am doing substituting and collecting a small pension. I cannot get hired for any kind of full-time work at my age.
There are MILLIONS like me.
Besides, there are nowhere near the jobs for all of the people who are out of work. I can't believe some of these posts. They are just unbelievable.
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Should there be a limit on how long one can receive unemployment benefits? [View all]
kentuck
Dec 2012
OP
Right now there is a limit even with state and fed extension it can be exhaustd
lunasun
Dec 2012
#47
That's because employers pay for it, it needs to be a publicly funded program. nt
bemildred
Jan 2013
#110
Exactly! It's still sucks out there and there are very, very, very few companies hiring!
DearHeart
Jan 2013
#96
How? You've been unemployed for 6 months or more, where are you going to get the money to pick up
Egalitarian Thug
Jan 2013
#120
You haven't answered the question. You assume some whole new 12 month living expense
Egalitarian Thug
Jan 2013
#127
What are all the professional drivers going to do when trucks, buses and cars drive themselves?
Fumesucker
Dec 2012
#26
They will remain behind the wheel, to ensure a human can always take control if needed.
Occulus
Jan 2013
#98
Perhaps we will have to re-visit the "guaranteed income" idea of a few decades ago?
kentuck
Dec 2012
#7
No. I do think that UI should be abolished and a system of guaranteed income
Luminous Animal
Dec 2012
#8
For the first time in 33 years of work I rcvd unemployment benefits. ~$400 a week. Or 9k for 6 mos
peacebird
Dec 2012
#9
The higher the unemployment rate, the longer unemployment insurance should last.
baldguy
Dec 2012
#13
My opinion, is that this is not true. My Dad used to call it "collecting his pennies".
juajen
Dec 2012
#18
I was responding to the above post about people gaming the unemployment system
NewJeffCT
Jan 2013
#133
The limit should flex with economic conditions. The economy now is still weak enough that
bluestate10
Dec 2012
#27
(6 months) I will get flamed for this but there are people that stay on unemployment
doc03
Dec 2012
#36
Unemployment benefits aren't that generous so those must have been some shitty paying jobs
Fumesucker
Dec 2012
#40
Fiberoptics to every home would be the rural electricity access of the modern era
Occulus
Jan 2013
#103
They do stop when a person gets a job. You can't collect UI if you have a job. At least on the books
JaneyVee
Jan 2013
#93
Limit should be tied to UI rate. 26wks minimum to 52wks maximum depending on UI.
OneTenthofOnePercent
Jan 2013
#104
All that I know of. Also, if you were self employed you don't get it.
Egalitarian Thug
Jan 2013
#123
It shouldn't have to be this way at all. Not to change your question or argue
R. Daneel Olivaw
Jan 2013
#131