Struggling Family Needs Help to Keep Heads Above Water
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My family is another family struggling to keep our heads above water. My husband actually worked for Maytag for 11 years before Whirlpool closed the doors 3 days before Christmas. Before that he served in the USMC. After he lost his job with Maytag, they paid for him to go back to school. He was drawing unemployment while going back to school to try to better himself and our family. Unfortunately he had to drop out of school to look for work as we couldn’t afford to continue driving my kids and him to school. We have tapped out any and all savings we had built up. He has been without since the first of October. We have both been out applying for job after job and there just isn’t anything out there. At this point I do not know what we will do. We have no money coming in, so come the middle of this month our electricity will be shut off, we wont be able to pay our vehicle insurance, we don’t have home phones, but had a cellphone and that is now turned off. We were behind on our vehicle payment, so we took the last of our money and paid it to the vehicle payments, they called me monday telling me I still owe $16.59. I explained the situation and she wasn’t very understanding, telling me she has to have confirmation from me that we intend to pay it. Well as of this date I am not comfortable lying and telling them a date I will be in to pay it, when I don’t know if & when the bill will finally pass. Even when it does, who knows when we will see the benefits.
We have 3 small children and it appears that they will not be having a Christmas of any sort this year. How is this fair to our children? How is it fair to anyone else & their children. I have found myself so depressed, that I don’t even look people in the eye anymore. I walk with my head hung down. My husband and I are stressed to the point, that its putting a strain on our marriage. For people to insist that people on unemployment benefits are lazy no gooders, that is just not true.
Another thing I have noticed where we live there just isn’t any discussion on this issue on the news at all. I think it needs to be brought up and continued to bring it up until something gets done. There is nothing worse then kicking a person when they are down, and that’s exactly what they are doing to those hundreds of thousands of people who have or are about to exhaust their benefits. I just hope that they get this taken care of before everyone loses everything they have worked years for.
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
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