Florida Unemployment

After being with Auto Truck Transport for eight years, I am now layed off due to the company closing down its lowboy division. One would think that after 8 years with the same company, that an employee could draw at least $400 a week in unemployment insurance.

But hell no, politicians have set it up to make it practically useless! The first thing you see on the unemployment form is all their felonys, years in prison legal jargon. They instill fear in people with their small print so that everyone is afraid to even claim it.

Anyways, this is what I learned. Take your last years earnings, divide it by four (4 quarters in a year) and take the quarter that you made the highest earnings in and then divide that by 26 (26 weeks unemployment) and that is what you get a week.

You would think, right! Nope, keep reading! Florida’s maximum unemployment compensation limit is only $275 a week!! What the hell. You can’t even pay a mortgage payment in Florida for $1,200 a month unless you live in the ghetto. Nonetheless, minimum wage earners are in luck, while higher wage earners get shoved right back into the system!

Anyone wanting to learn more about our government’s promotion of poverty in America, read this article below, courtesy of Florida’s Agency for Workforce Innovation! Workforce Innovation all right! Starve Americans and they’ll pretty much work for free!!!

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In order to establish a monetarily eligible unemployment compensation claim, a person must have worked and earned wages during the first four quarters of the previous five completed quarters prior to filing a claim. This period of time is called the “base period.” The base period changes every three months at the beginning of each new quarter starting in January, April, July and October. This calculation is automatically done at the time you file your claim. For claims filed during April, May and June, 2007, the base period is January 1, 2006 through December 31, 2006.

To calculate the weekly benefit amount, use the quarter in the base period with the highest earnings and divide the earnings by 26. This number is your weekly benefit amount. The minimum weekly benefit amount is $32 and the maximum weekly benefit amount is $275. To calculate your maximum available credits, you divide your total base period wages as shown on your Wage Transcript and Determination by four (4). This number is the amount you have available to receive providing you meet all other eligibility requirements. The total amount of available credits can range from a minimum of $850 to a maximum of $7150.