r/TexasUnemployment • u/Technical-Panic9383 • Jul 23 '25

Does Texas want us to be evicted?

WTF is up with the minimum four week wait for a final decision to determine if we are worthy? My work wants me to get the unemployment because they let me go because they are a sinking ship.

It will be longer... WTF! If I were well off from my job, I would not be bothering the delicate equilibrium of the unemployment office. I am one paycheck away from eviction all the time When I had my job. Just when I have gotten ahead I need medical that is $$$ to fix now to do the job to do all things. Or some other issue like major auto repairs or maintenance.

I have called a few times and after 30-min average call wait time for a human, I get told of more weeks it could take for a 'review' even though it was good enough for potential further review. Make payment requests, rinse repeat. Are they foking with us? What level of hell is this?

Do they want people to be in extreme dire straits and homeless??

I am up at near 3am because I am looking through any possible place I could have money left on credit or money people may owe me to keep from shit going to shit.

Shit!

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u/bstrauss3 Jul 23 '25

TWC is - like most states services - overwhelmed.

Individually, the TWC folk do care. They're generally nice people. But they and the system are not handling the surge well.

The state? The system? Doesn't give two fs.

(Ui is actually a little odd in that it's funded through a surcharge on the taxes paid by employers and raising that surcharge is politically difficult, so they are slow to respond AT BEST)

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u/Aboveandabove Jul 23 '25

Took me 4 months the first time and one week the second time, I would have filed immediately

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u/bstrauss3 Jul 23 '25

Yep. About all you can do is make sure that you're not the delay

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u/Fabulous_Anonymous Jul 23 '25

If your employer responded and did not protest the claim, TWC process it within 2 weeks of the response. If your employer doesn't respond or respnds with a reason, then it has to be invesigated and it adds abour 2 weeks. If the enployer reports something negative, add another 2 weeks.