» I Suck At Being Poor
I only ever thought about Employment Insurance when I bothered opening a pay stub. Now I’m going to make a claim, and I’ve already made one key mistake.
It’s never taken me longer than two weeks to find a job once I really started looking, an easy financial jump. When I gave up on employment I extended that strategy out: “I’ll just live on severance!”
Error.
The idea is to apply for EI the day you lose your job. I have no being-out-of-work experience, and now there’s a financial penalty to pay.
Oh, and Service Canada are the guys you want to talk to.
It’s funny, we often talk about one reason that people end up being poor is they never learn how to use the system (especially financially). But of course there is a poor system that even us who get by don’t know how to use.
You need to become a welfare queen, Alex.
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10 Feb 09 at 2:47 pm
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