What to Expect When Filing for Unemployment
April 9th, 2009 | by admin |If your former company had been paying into Social Security on your behalf, you will be eligible to receive unemployment for a predetermined amount of time, based on how long you were at your former place of employment. Once you are let go of your job, you need to make an appointment to discuss your benefits. Your benefits liaison will give you a large amount of information regarding how much you will be receiving and the “rules” that go along with it. Yes, there are rules…and strict ones at that. In years past, you were able to request benefits, be lazy for 6 months to a year and then decide to go back once your benefits were used up. Today, you are forced to go to training to learn specific trades if you are unable to find a job. You are also forced to search (and prove) that you made every effort possible to find a job every week, otherwise your benefits will be cut off.
