• ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml
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    7 months ago

    -I got paid more on unemployment than when working.

    How did that one happen? That’s the unbelievable part to me - unemployment is basically capped to a percentage (usually 50%) of what you were making when working, at least where I live.

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      7 months ago

      Unemployment counts the last 5 quarters. If you get fired before a quarter ends it doesn’t count it as a full quarter.

      I left a different job making a lot more because of my health. I knew the manager at this new job and he saw I wanted a position that I was already in. Less hours, about the same pay.

      When I was unemployed it counted the vacation I was reimbursed upon my leave from the previous company and the massive amount of overtime I was making from the previous job. If they would have fired me 4 days later, I would have been in the new quarter and gotten a lot less.