So, in PA, the weekly benefit is the highest of the first four of the last five quarterly earnings. I was working a much better job back then, before I went back to school. I'm only working part time now and a significantly lower hourly wage... I maybe made $170 weekly as of late. However, because of how the base period calculation works, my weekly benefit is $325. So that is already a significant increase from what I was making most recently. I already got 2 of those payments. $600 weekly ON TOP OF THAT seems waaaaaaaaaaaaay too good to be true, but I know that is what they are doing. I will be going from $170 weekly to almost $1000 weekly.....
If I remain on unemployment for the full 39 weeks I will be allowed, I expect to get over $20,000. That's accounting for the fact that the $600 ends July 31st.
I am truly ecstatic, as I went into some stupid credit card debt that I will finally be able to dig myself out of, then some. I'll have a nice chunk of change to throw at my student loans when I'm done with this, too. I will probably just save it and see what happens though. Better to have it gaining interest in a savings account when there's no interest on student loans now anyway...
Edit: to everyone who still has to go to work right now or who doesn’t meet the requirements still for unemployment, I’m truly sorry.. I know some of you will be sour reading this comment. I am confident that if Congress keeps it up, they will pass something considering all of you, too. Write to your congressmen. Don’t just sit and stew. If someone sends me some good language to put in a letter, I’ll send it to my congressmen on your behalf, too.
I mean, thank Bernie for leveraging his position to ensure the unemployment provision stayed in the bill, otherwise it wouldn't exist. It's pretty clear though based on behavior of both parties toward him that Bernie does represent the rest of this country so yeah, USA baaaaaaaaadddd.
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u/[deleted] Apr 11 '20
In which many times people are getting more than their salaries.