Unemployed and Trying Stories; Laid Off and Need Help!

November 3, 2009 · Posted in Uncategorized

We would like to thank you all for your unemployed and trying stories. We encourage you to send us emails with your stories! Please vote on the Unemployment Benefits Extension poll as well!

Hi, My husband has been laid off since Dec 17 with 9 days prior notice. 1 month before that he tore his bicep & it is only held by small tendon. Large tendon is disconnected. With how crappy workman comp co. are they waited 3 wks before letting him get an mri. Can not be fixed anymore. So he can not go back to trailer repair,lifting,any wrenching. The Nebraska workman comp COURT will allow him to go to school to retrain for another type of work, however all is taking forever. Now he has a broken fibula bone & had to have surgery to rebuild his ankle after an accident. We had full coverage on motorcycle, but I did not know the policy had no medical coverage for the driver. Now we have a big bill coming. Applied for any help we can get to help pay the bills. Having a benefit too. He will not be able to put weight on that ankle for 12 wks. He is sooooooooo ready to get back to work & all just seems to keep snow balling. We need the unemployment extention! He had several surgery’s previously and unemployment only goes back 18 months on income made (not the 8 years he was with the company) So he only gets 188/wk instead of the full amount as his short term disability does not count as income in those 18 months. The unemployment pays 80% of our mortgage. I have been self employed full time house cleaner for 21 years. What I make pays for all other bills. Have no idea where to get any affordable health insurance. The cobra offered even after the Obama thing was 570.00 a month & his work said we would have had to paid full month of Feb 09 to get the cobra policy. That would have been 1300.00. Couldn’t afford the 570 a month how could we afford 1300.00? Well just trying to get by……We need the extention! Not lazy folks! Just unlucky! Thanks for your time Suzette M Shaw Omaha NE.

I exhausted all of my benefits 10 weeks ago. I have tried unsuccessfully each day to find employment, my electricity is cut off and my landlord wants his rent in 10 days no exceptions I am a college graduate with an advanced degree, so are both my parents and my spouse we arel all unemployed so I have no resources. this bipartisan bickering has got to end because at the end of the day the American people lose.

There isn’t much hope for job recovery so why don’t they pass another extension for people who have exhausted all of their benefits. All I keep hearing especially from our President and reading, is that there will be no jobs generated until late 2010 or 2011. This is not expectable by any means.
The President is going to MIT tomorrow to make a speech about renewable energy. While he’s there why doesn’t he ask them if he gave them some stimulus money for research and development projects like renewable energy, stem labs across America, protective full body uniforms for our soldiers, better weapons for our soldiers, Solar power energy for all our house in America, Wind energy. Could they start up companies and start hiring people for research and development for our future. The Labor Department said there was a net loss of 263,000 jobs in the month September, up from a revised loss of 201,000 jobs in August. This report is dismal and disappointing,” said Sung Won Sohn, economics professor at Cal State University Channel Islands. “The ‘green shoots’ in the economy are withering. Technically, the economy may have bottomed, but the job market doesn’t have any hope.

UPDATE: We have had an amazing response to this issue! If you would like to write an article to those in Washington as to why YOU think unemployment benefits should be extended please email them to jwojdylo@subprimeblogger.com. If your article is free of profanity and any direct insults we will be more than happy to post it here on Unemployed and Trying so you can send the link to anyone you choose.

Author: Jesse Wojdylo

Unemployed and Trying Stories

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