To make a long story short, hubby got laid off three weeks ago yesterday. He went online to apply for UI benefits. Within a week, he was approved and that end of the week, we got the credit card from state (weird!) and said to call to activate. Hubby had it on the application to send UI benefits to our checking account but he went ahead and call the credit card company to activate it so we can get UI money coming in a reasonable time.
With G&D and CAT employees are going on lay offs, everyone said we should have gotten our UI money about a week but we now were told we will expect to wait up to three to five weeks! My SS benefits can only go so far and we were wondering how long did you have to wait for your UI money to come in?
In our town, unemployment numbers are rising from 12 percent to almost 15 percent due to the larger corporations in our town laying off CAT and ADM and other companies that are directly affected by the corporation's lay offs. It is very uncertain when and will they call them back probably in January to Feb when the orders start coming in. Jobs are so scarce and we don't have extra money anymore for searching for jobs.Recently CAT laid off 1000 employees and more to come in the next two months here in Decatur.
I also wonder about the real stats on unemployed folks who are no longer looking for work and "dropped" out of the job searches to be a "stay at home" mom and dads and DIYers.
I hate the waiting game and need the UI money to come in........
With G&D and CAT employees are going on lay offs, everyone said we should have gotten our UI money about a week but we now were told we will expect to wait up to three to five weeks! My SS benefits can only go so far and we were wondering how long did you have to wait for your UI money to come in?
In our town, unemployment numbers are rising from 12 percent to almost 15 percent due to the larger corporations in our town laying off CAT and ADM and other companies that are directly affected by the corporation's lay offs. It is very uncertain when and will they call them back probably in January to Feb when the orders start coming in. Jobs are so scarce and we don't have extra money anymore for searching for jobs.Recently CAT laid off 1000 employees and more to come in the next two months here in Decatur.
I also wonder about the real stats on unemployed folks who are no longer looking for work and "dropped" out of the job searches to be a "stay at home" mom and dads and DIYers.
I hate the waiting game and need the UI money to come in........
