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Originally posted by DeltAlum
I was out of work due to a corporate merger for over a year, and didn't choose to apply for unemployment. That may have been dumb on my part since I've paid into the tax system since I was fifteen years old. Had I been unemployed for another month or two, I would probably have been forced to file.
My only problem with folks on welfare/unemployment, etc. are the ones who do nothing to better their own situation.
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Welfare and unemployment are not really the same. As you said, you paid into unemployment with the tax that comes out of your paycheck and your employer paid into unemployment to pay people like you. You earned your unemployment compensation. And in order to get unemployment, you have to be looking, or you can also receive it if the new job you were forced to take pays less than your old job (I manage the unemployment comp fund at the city I work for). But, the rules also vary by state.
Welfare is not the same process, they don't pay into it before they receive from it..
And I agree with what's been said before. Those who try to get off welfare are ok, those who just milk the system deserve to get yanked from it.