Amy, better to file and not need it than to count on income you don't get!

I'm sorry, Amy. Good luck!

Oh, Amy, that sucks balls. I'm sorry.

Also, if NY is like OH for unemployment, go ahead and file. If you don't work in a given week (or work less than whatever your weekly unemployment payment would be), then you receive a payment. If you don't work at all in a given week, you receive the full payment, and if you do work, but less than full time, then the payment is the difference between what you earned and what your unemployment payment would have been. (Like, if you weekly benefit is $400, and you work enough to earn $300, then your payment is $100.)

That's how Ohio does it, so check your state's unemployment website to see how they do it.

Amy, that sucks. And it sounds like what happened with my dad. Yeah, he got hired back on as a contractor on the same exact project, and for same or maybe even better pay, but he had to provide his own health insurance (not right away, I don't think). So after cobra ran out he was paying out the nose for it. I think what it comes down to us that on one particular budget line, they are now spending less. They are spending more in other areas , but that's not what's important to making the books look good.

I've never had health insurance through them, so ... I'm still out of health insurance. Dealing with that later.

We're in PA now, Tep, but Stephen is saying the same thing, and I didn't understand what he meant. Now I do! Thanks!

And thanks for the good thoughts, everybody. At least now you won't have to hear me complain about my job?

If you don't work in a given week (or work less than whatever your weekly unemployment payment would be), then you receive a payment. If you don't work at all in a given week, you receive the full payment, and if you do work, but less than full time, then the payment is the difference between what you earned and what your unemployment payment would have been.

This is how NY works, but isn't Amy in PA?

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This is how NY works, but isn't Amy in PA?

Sorry; my brain is still kind of broken. I can't remember stuff about my own life (it's actually kind of badscary), so I'm not surprised I forgot where Amy and Stephen are.

My general advice still holds; check your (correct) state's unemployment website.

I think it does work that way, Tep -- that's what Stephen was trying to explain that I wasn't understanding.

Now to work out the rest of the day. I'm trying to decide which movie to watch while I "edit".

Ah shit, Amy. Well, I put a package in the mail for you anyway this morning. I will just tell you about it now instead.

And the filing advice sounds like how it worked for me in CA with the krav and provocateuse money coming in--UI filled in the spaces.

Which seems to contradict the whole "slashing budgets" issue, but whatever.

Even if they're not paying into insurance, I understand there's some employee overhead they can avoid if you're doing contract work so this is cheaper for them. Rarely better for you, but they're not the caringest, are they?

Amy, that sucks, may a much better job come your way soon!

I'm trying to decide which movie to watch while I "edit".

This is exactly what I'm doing.