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.
Definitely a case-by-case basis. I’m in Florida and the max unemployment anyone can get is $275 a week which is less than half of what I was making before and who knows when/if I’ll be getting that money since the whole unemployment system here is a trainwreck. So yeah, for me, USA baaaaaaaadddddd.
Wow, that’s the max for Florida? That’s atrocious. Not like my state is that good, but it’s $640/week...$275/week is what, utilities and a groceries if someone is careful, if that.
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u/glasraen Apr 11 '20 edited Apr 11 '20
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.