…so I will be off early tomorrow morning to try to get it settled. So I’ll likely be blogging much less than I normally do in the AM.
Hopefully it will get resolved quickly or things will get very nasty here rather fast.
Likely it is just routine but boy this is getting really old.
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Good luck. Remember what you go through tomorrow could be SOP for a doctor visit soon.
I also live in Fitchburg and have been unemployed for two years now. I’ve applied for over 150 jobs and have gotten nothing. I’m starting to get scared out of my mind.
Can anyone qualify for unemployment? I’ve never looked into it — I don’t want it, I want to work, and keep applying, but can get nothing and am heading toward homelessness. If I could get unemployment it might be the only thing to keep me alive, but I doubt I would be eligible. What do you have to do?
I don’t know if there is a time period involved or if you were working under the table, but either way it is worth going there to find out.
Even if they can’t provide you with benefits there are useful services available there and if necessary they might be able to point you in various directions that will keep the wolf from the door.
Either way you need to go to the office at 100 Erdman Way (the Big brick building between BJ’s Warehouse and the RMV.
The Unemployment office is in the back next to Mount Wachusett’s satellite campus, go in the back door and bang a right. A satellite view is here.
Get there early, They open at 8:30, I got there 15 minutes early and waited for nearly 2 hours this morning. They are overwhelmed.
I know how embarrassing it is but your first responsibility is to survive and to provide for people who might be depending on you. If the law allows you to get this help accept it. If you were doing ok and you had a friend in need you wouldn’t allow pride to prevent you from helping him. Don’t let that same pride put you on the streets.
One has to play the cards one has and go from there.
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It is simply just a transition from a state unemployment extension to a federal extension. For me last year during that time I received only 1 paper check and direct deposit continued after that. I also received other paperwork, that scared me, but it was just automatic computer-generated nonsense.
Whenever there was a transition the system said that i was no longer qualified for unemployment payments, however by the next day everything was back to normal again, I just had to request my payment a day later.