• Graveyard Leprechaun@lemmy.ml
    6·
    3 years ago

    I’ve never met a single person in my life who made more money on unemployment than their job gave them. Not sure how this is possible, given that the system is designed to only pay out a small percentage of the person’s previous salary. Granted, I don’t know everything, but…

    • AgreeableLandscape☭OP
      5·
      3 years ago

      It’s definitely possible. If you worked a decent laying job before but now you can only find minimum wage. Or, when the unployment compensations have been adjusted for inflation (you know, like it should be) but regular wages have not.