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Non-American here (and I presume OP and many here are Americans): can I ask how do you survive unemployment? Are there social safety nets (I suppose no?) or government programs to help find jobs? How many months can one realistically last without a job?
Anyway I wish you the best, comrade(s).
in america you just burn through savings if you have it
its a struggle
i didnt take my first vacation as an adult until i was 36
There is none of that. Unemployment is barely enough to scrape by for most people, and it kinda just boils down to how much money you have when you lose a job.
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Fuck. Good luck my friend, hope you get paid soon.
I got my severance before I signed anything soooo time to fuck up this laptop
Unemployment payments are based on what you were making at your previous job (iirc its like 40% of your previous weekly pay depending on the state). So if you were barely getting by before, unemployment will do basically nothing. In terms of how long you can last, that entirely depends on whether or not you have savings, because UI alone won't cut it for anyone with actual bills to pay.
I should also add that there's a lot of means testing for unemployment depending on the state and sometimes you tick the wrong box and they've got you faxing documents in triplicate just for a couple hundred bucks.
As an aside from unemployment specifically but on the topic of "social safety nets"...
I found a website for a US state's SNAP program (assistance buying food).
Digging through the details... if you have a job but work less than 20 hours at that job, you could be denied OR penalized for not working enough hours.
For the record, my current job if I ONLY punched in/out when the office was opened/closed, would only be 16 hours a week.