[quote=pabloesqobar]A friend of mine just received another extension – which will take her to 2 years of unemployment benefits. She loves it. They file the extensions automatically for her. Until the benefits come to an end, she has no reason to find a job. If they decided to block her extension of benefits, I don’t see how she could argue that she was being thrown under the bus.[/quote]
Your friend must have cheap living conditions. A good friend of mine was laid off last April. She has been ACTIVELY looking for work ever since… Not just limited to IT, but willing to do anything. Her unemployment covers her mortgage… barely. ($450/week doesn’t go far.) She’s single with a grown son with health issues. They’re using food banks, etc to get buy. Her 401k has been diminished. This is a woman who’s only debt was her mortgage (no CC debt, no car payments, no student loans.) Her mortgage was pretty reasonable. But she’s hurting.
And your friends experience with the EDD department is the opposite of the experience my husband had… If he had work for a week – he didn’t want to claim – so they’d kick him out of the system temporarily… till they could do a phone call a month later to ask why he didn’t claim that week – in the meantime he collected nothing…. Very frustrating. Nothing automatic.
