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srh88 said:

I lost almost 2 full months of wages. Michigan system was bullshit. Id call and system was down and certify online every week.. but stopped getting paid out.. that was beginning of June. Thats a decent bit of income.. Luckily I had enough saved and found something else to do. All good now but if I had no other options like some people are stuck with. No car, no skills only thing they know is shut in their tiny towns... it would for sure hurt. Luckily you had a good experience but obviously not everyone has had that experience.

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Bubbas.dad1 said:

I have tenant that had a real hard time with unemployment. Denied, and is still waiting for resolution. They got the 600 thing, but after the fed stuff stopped, they got nothing. Her former employer, didn’t want her to claim unemployment, even when her hours were reduced to 1 day per week. Basically crazy political crap. Fortunately for me, her parents gave her some money. Her husband was laid off for 3 months, but got back to work. Good people, young with 4 kids, no good jobs and no money to spare.

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srh88 said:

She shoulda got underemployment. But I really don't know how the shit works. They definitely didn't make it easy.

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Bubbas.dad1 said:

I don’t think anyone does. Her employer got pissed at her over the reduced hours. 8 hours a week? She felt that was enough, about $100, to not claim unemployment. I suspect she got the ppp loan, and didn’t want to use it like she was supposed too, paying employees. A lot of small business people skate along, cheating at the margins, and this economy exposed a lot of them. My wife’s business tanked, but we used the downtime to refresh the whole shop, she is doing better now than before. But we are older, and have everything paid off. If this had hit 20 years ago, we would really be hurting. Friends of ours had a restaurant, it failed, but they had been trying to sell it for 3 years, lots of hours, not much money. A business can become a zombie, go on for years, not really thriving, just coasting, then a external event comes along and pushes it over the edge. Sorry for the extra words here.

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Bubbas.dad1 said:

I don’t think anyone does. Her employer got pissed at her over the reduced hours. 8 hours a week? She felt that was enough, about $100, to not claim unemployment. I suspect she got the ppp loan, and didn’t want to use it like she was supposed too, paying employees. A lot of small business people skate along, cheating at the margins, and this economy exposed a lot of them. My wife’s business tanked, but we used the downtime to refresh the whole shop, she is doing better now than before. But we are older, and have everything paid off. If this had hit 20 years ago, we would really be hurting. Friends of ours had a restaurant, it failed, but they had been trying to sell it for 3 years, lots of hours, not much money. A business can become a zombie, go on for years, not really thriving, just coasting, then a external event comes along and pushes it over the edge. Sorry for the extra words here.

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Chunky Stool said:

The long lines at foodbanks say it all.

My daughter saw them on TV and asked why people don't go to the grocery store instead of waiting in line all day.

It's because they have no money and this is their only option.

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