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... is smaller in theory than in practice.
I applied for unemployment benefits when I first heard that self-employed people were eligible (in theory), on March 29. A week later, and a couple of weeks after that, I got the same email acknowledging receipt of my application. The system would accept weekly updates, but not really admit my case existed otherwise.
( the practice )
So today I am trying to figure out what they might want to restart my claim. Of course there are no instructions for that for self-employed folks. Apparently they didn't imagine that we might keep working a little bit as best we could, and GOOD THING given how long it's taking to turn theoretical benefits into dollars in a bank account.
I am so grateful that I have the resources to weather this. And I am so frustrated that having done everything according to their process as best I could, and waited patiently all this time, I'm still not getting what's due to me. Who knows if I ever will, or if they'll l continue to be unreachable by phone and do things wrong on the back end.
(The couple of people I've chatted with about this have immediately jumped to talking about the poor overwhelmed unemployment department workers. Just... don't.)
I applied for unemployment benefits when I first heard that self-employed people were eligible (in theory), on March 29. A week later, and a couple of weeks after that, I got the same email acknowledging receipt of my application. The system would accept weekly updates, but not really admit my case existed otherwise.
( the practice )
So today I am trying to figure out what they might want to restart my claim. Of course there are no instructions for that for self-employed folks. Apparently they didn't imagine that we might keep working a little bit as best we could, and GOOD THING given how long it's taking to turn theoretical benefits into dollars in a bank account.
I am so grateful that I have the resources to weather this. And I am so frustrated that having done everything according to their process as best I could, and waited patiently all this time, I'm still not getting what's due to me. Who knows if I ever will, or if they'll l continue to be unreachable by phone and do things wrong on the back end.
(The couple of people I've chatted with about this have immediately jumped to talking about the poor overwhelmed unemployment department workers. Just... don't.)
