For Long-Term Unemployed, You're Better Off Not Working?
The Hartford Courant’s front page story today covers the problems the unemployed face when taking on temporary work. Not only will taking on work reduce your unemployment check for the days you do work, but after your first year of unemployment, federal law says your next year’s benefit is calculated based on the work you did over the first year.
Yeah, seriously.
“By working and knowing it wasn’t steady, and it wasn’t going to last long, I cut my own throat,” one road construction worker told reporter Mara Lee after his benefit check was reduced from $544 a week to $254.
That’s because he brought in $1,000 a week for a six-week temporary gig last year.
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