So a totally random question just occurred to me, and I don't know the answer:
What keeps a college student from collecting unemployment?
I suppose, if I had to guess right now, I'd guess that it's that a college student isn't actively seeking employment, but it seems like that'd be simple enough for a clever college student to work around... But I know nothing about unemployment laws, so that was just a totally random guess.
Does anyone have the real answer?
And just why would you be wondering about this? Did you piss off your boss or something?
No, I was wondering this because a former co-worker (from way back in the day) got laid off several months ago, and he’s been collecting unemployment since then, but he’s coming back to school in the fall to finish his degree.
Heh, you and your weird questions!
Check the namelink; apparently, students face a lot of restrictions.
…When working for the school, anyway.
There goes my plan of getting fired on the last day and then coasting through the summer….
I’m ignorant of the facts here, but don’t some forms list “student” as an occupation? If so, it might be considered, in some contexts, as a form of unemployment.
Unemployment laws do not take into consideration educational status. A person recieving unemployment must first demonstrate that he/she has been actively employed for a certain duration (designated by state law). This is done to make sure that the individual has worked long enough to have sufficient unemployment insurance contribuated by their employers to justify granting the claim. The claim that the person files with the state is then sent to the employer. The employer reserves the right to refute claims in a hearing held by the state with the employee. The employer usually waives this option because the State almost always sides with the employee anyway. The state is MORE likely to grant unemployment benifits to someone going back to school. The purpose of unemployment is to sustain an individual while he/she pursues actively pursues other options, and the state considers higher education a very ideal way of doing such.
Some people get lazy and prefer to be unemployed and get unemployment checks. Take one of my friends for an example he has a wife and a daughter, he also has attended college practically his whole life but never maintained a steady job. He still is attending college at the age of 48 (this is sad!). But he prefers to be a lazy person and recieve unemployment checks while his wife and daughter do all the working. So to answer your question I would have to say there are lazy people out there!
I worked at a restaraunt for three years, then i quit because of the employer’s ethics on ow to run her bussiness. i found a job two days later. i worked all summer and got laid off. i started going to college full time right after i got laid off. unemployment wouldnt give me any money because i didnt have time to work full time and go to college full time. they said i had to quit school to get any money. they also said i wouldnt get any money because i quit my first job. i wasnt trying to get unemployment for my first job, i was trying to get it because i got laid off on my seccond job. the woman interviewing me made me cry digging up all the horrible reasons i quit my first job (including not being able to call in sick when i’m pukeing so bad from morning sickness that i couldnt even talk for two minutes on the phone, turns out i was so sick that my pregnancy had to be terminated. after the abortion i had to work the very next morning even though the doctor told me not to. there are many more really bad reasons also) she said the reasons werent good enough for her and that unemployment would deny me.
i was also denyed food stamps because i was going to college and was not considdered a house hold if i was not working full time as well.
fuck the system, just because im going to college doesnt mean i dont have to eat.
when i was laid off i only recieb 336 week a far cry from the 900 a week i was making while working full time, while the politicians lie and stael aand get away with it what a crock .
Oh boohoo! Cry about it. Look, nothing in this world is free and just because you’re going to college doesn’t make you any more special than a bum on the street. I was going to college, but I had to quit because I had to make more money. The key word here is I, no hand outs, no begging, just me. You guys make me sick, you think everything has to be given to you. That might have worked when you were living with mommy and daddy but this is the real world.
Even if I was a minority, I still wouldn’t take hand outs, wheres your sense of self accomplishment when you can’t fend for your self?!?!
its a jungle out there.
I worked for a wheel company for 4 years straight but here recently the company has laid off workers. I attended college during the day and then stacked very heavy wheels at night. I got laid off and filed for unemployment. Keep in my mind I have 2 semesters left and I graduated fromc college. Well the state says I need to quit going school and start searching for full time work. I must also add that I am majoring in Computer Science. So I don’t understand why I cannot just collect my unemployment, get recruited by a software company, hardware, etc. and most likely never have to file for unemployment ever again. Currently I have an appeal and a scheduled day for an interview.
My daughter’s fiance, and father of her baby, has collected unemployment more than once. I find him to be down right lazy. Example: lots of tv, video games and escapes from the real world, a new Lexus, a 2 K engagement, etc. He doesn’t believe that collecting unemployment is unethical. He has had one job interview in the past year and I see him “working the system.” He sees this as collecting money from taxes paid anyway. Two questions: What is the number one reason why he should not be collecting unemployment, and two, how does this affect his employer’s unemployment tax rate? He most recently worked for a dating service at a flat rate of $200 per week plus commission which is why he feels he can collect. Could you clarify any of this?