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Unemployment Made Easy Blog
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An unemployment compensation base year is the period of time during which your earnings are calculated to determine your weekly benefit amount, the maximum amount you will be able to collect in unemployment benefits per week. A base year usually consists of 52 consecutive weeks. I use the word ‘usually’ here because there are factors that can affect the amount of weeks. For instance, because of the way quarters end, it is possible to have the same quarter in two consecutive base years.
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The information contained herein is not necessarily up to date because banks/states change their fees from time to time. This is only a generalization on what you can expect when using a debit card in order to access your unemployment compensation benefits. This is only a random sampling of those states that use debit cards.
Generally, if you use the ATM attached to the card, or even a financial institution showing the card’s logo (Visa, MasterCard for example), there is no fee. -
The appeal comes into play immediately after the decision denying UC benefits is issued. It is IMPORTANT to adequately prepare a defense at this step. Although an unemployment appeal can be made following the hearing, usually no additional testimony or evidence is allowed. The appeal actually consists of three steps:
- Actually filing the appeal
- Preparing the defense
- Attending the hearing
Filing the Appeal
The actual appeal should be filed according to each state’s particular standards. -
This blog will attempt to make some sense out of debit cards used for payment of unemployment compensation benefits. They are supposed to provide quicker and safer access to your money. They are mandatory in some states because they eliminate costs associated with producing and mailing checks. They are also a boon to banks because they have your money until you withdraw it either through cash or point of sale transactions, without paying interest on it. In addition, it is my belief that the states also pay some percentage to the banks for handling and processing these transactions.
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There were two different cases affecting Walmart this week, one a win for Walmart at the Supreme Court and the other a loss at Pennsylvania’s Superior Court. The Pennsylvania Superior Court upheld a previous class-action verdict that involved rest breaks and off the clock work. This resulted in an almost $200 million verdict which Walmart is sure to appeal to the United States Supreme court.
The greatest win for Walmart involved the class action suit brought by four women regarding job discrimination. -
The biggest news to date regarding Social Security deductions from Unemployment Compensation benefits is that, as of July 2011, Virginia will no longer be one of those states. The legislature voted to repeal this ridiculous law AGAIN! It was repealed in the past 1½ years with the condition that it go back in place based on the Unemployment Compensation fund balance. This actually put the onus on older claimants out of work, who have a much harder time finding a job because of their age.
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The anti-union Wisconsin law was struck down by a Dane County Circuit Court judge after the county DA filed suit. See the blog States vs. Unions for details of the law. The reason it was struck down is because it violated the state’s open meetings law, which requires at least two hours’ notice to the public. Now state attorneys have asked the Wisconsin Supreme Court to step in and vacate the judge’s ruling.
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An article appeared in our local Letters to the Editor regarding corporations being entities, or persons. Corporations have long been recognized as separate entities from the owners, whether they be sole proprietorships, partnerships, stockholders, etc. It was not until the US Supreme Court gave them ‘personal’ status last year that this definition for an entity changed. This has allowed big corporations to push their weight around using their enormous stockpiles of money to sway voters and get politicians elected that are ‘in their pockets’.
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Wall Street CEOs are back at the trough again. The average pay for CEOs in 2010 was $9,000,000. That’s right. Nine Million dollars! And that’s only the average. The largest package was over 84 MILLION dollars! And there were many who received over 25 million dollars. These amounts are more than they received before the Great Recession that the rest of participated in. Thirteen million people are either out of work or under-employed, have lost their houses, cars and probably even families.
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The Republican attack on unions appears to be faltering. Laws barring mandatory union fees were introduced into 14 states bout only one, New Hampshire, passed them into legislation.
Mandatory union fees were introduced so that employees who chose not to become union members but still benefited from the negotiations the unions made with the employers could pay a ‘fair share’. It is historical that when unions get benefits for their members that ALL of the employees receive the same benefits.
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It appears that Gov. LePage won his right to remove the mural in the Department of Labor foyer. See previous blog.
Now he is taking the war further. He wants to rename the conference rooms to reflect no bias towards labor or business. But, it’s the Department of LABOR! It is not the Department of Business/Commerce; it’s all about labor. The current names of these rooms reflect labor’s fight for rights, such as the number of hours women and children could work in factories. -
The war against the working class continues. Now the third state to join the assault is Maine. The first was Wisconsin and the second Ohio. Gov. Paul LePage, Republican, has removed a mural dedicated to labor from--wait for it---The Department of Labor lobby. This 11 panel mural was commissioned by the previous governor, a Democrat, in 2007 and placed in the Department of Labor lobby in 2008. Gov. LePage had it removed because it was not a part of his policy goals.
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Sure, everybody way back then talked about a McJob, something McDonald’s was not pleased with. But, in today’s economy, maybe a McJob isn’t too bad. Many, many unemployed have found that they are having a lot of trouble getting back into their career, or even anywhere. Perhaps it is about time to look elsewhere, perhaps at a McJob, at least to tide you over. I personally know of a person who was manager of a slaughter house and got laid off. This person looked and looked for a job at a comparative pay but found none.
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Wisconsin started it and now the ball is rolling in other states, including Ohio and Indiana. The state of Wisconsin passed a law stripping state union employees of most of their rights. Prior to passage over 80,000 people protested at the capital building and Democrat representatives fled to Illinois to avoid a quorum to vote. But the congress used a loophole that allowed for a vote as long as it did not involve money--and it passed!
The law basically tales away all rights of state union employees to negotiate with the state except for wages. -
On Tuesday, March 29, 2011 the United States Supreme Court took up a case involving four women who sued Walmart for job discrimination. They argued that they were paid less than and passed over for men who were doing the same job. This sex discrimination lawsuit was started over 10 years ago and Walmart has fought it every step of the way. These four women are trying to get the lawsuit to go forward as a class action. If they are successful, the class action could include over one and a half million women.
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