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Originally Posted by Kevin
I wish you luck, but when should unemployment benefits finally be cut off? This is deficit spending on folks who have been unemployed for (in some cases) 99 weeks.
My understanding of unemployment (and I've never taken unemployment, so this is based on very limited knowledge) is that you have to show evidence of at least three job applications per week.
If that's true and you've applied for over 300 jobs and not made progress, maybe the problem isn't the job market.
At some point, this free money has to dry up.
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Then make it more graduated than the way they are doing this. The way this is working right now is that everybody who has been collecting for more than 6 months is cut off whether it's their 6month + 1 week or their 99th month. I'd be very curious to see better stats on just how long some of these people have been on unemployment. My ex has only been collecting unemployment since February, when his severance pay ran out.
All that said, I disagree with the statement "if you have applied for 300 jobs and still don't have one... " in a market where there are 400 applicants for every ONE job. We're talking about an area where the unemployment is 1 in 6.