In which I’m trying to figure out this back-to-school thing.
When I hatched my spend-a-year-getting-certs scheme, EUC was a given. The Training Benefits facilitator even told me I’d get them.
Then time passed, and EUC expired 16 fucking days before my benefits ran out, and now I’m using my training benefits months before I’d expected to tap into them.
My school plan depended on getting many weeks of EUC before having to use my 20 weeks worth of Extended Benefits.
I guess it really was too good to be true, the whole go-to-school-for-a-year-while-getting-deposits thing, because now if I don’t get EUC, I’m going to run out of benefits in mid-November and I have to go to school now that I’ve started receiving training benefits, otherwise I’ll have to pay them back.
Long story short: it’s not free money after all, if EUC fails for me, because I’ll be borrowing more than I wanted to. More damn student loans.
The current EUC bill is still in the Senate, and they’re supposed to vote on it tomorrow… problem is, if they make any changes it goes back to the House. Again. Which means it could easily be weeks, if not months, before there might be any EUC relief for yours truly.
The uncertainty is kinda freakin’ me out, but I guess I’ll muddle through somehow or another. If I get EUC, I’ll borrow less. If I don’t, well, the financial aid portal thinks I need $16k worth of aid for nine months in school and I’m nowhere near the borrowing cap, so I guess I’ll be okay even if I can’t find a P/T job.
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I hope they extend it, too, but the country is down on Obama. If Obama wants it, it must be socialism! Or communism! Or fascism!! Or maybe I’m just beaten and battered from living in rural Iowa.
His health care passed so maybe there’s hope. Until Sarah is president and everything gets taken back. And Terry Branstad is governor of Iowa again and the (sick, stupid) people vote on gay marriage.
Yeah, been living in BFE too long…
The rage the GOP is showing is weird to me. When we had one as president, I thought he was an idiot, but I wasn’t angry all the time. -m
Hi five to the working unemployed! I have been claiming 1/2 time benefits since March. Hoping to get in on the new extension (thanks Pres!).
Have you been watching http://www.etsy.com/jobs/
I never have the qualifications, but you do!
I’m pretty sure I’m eligible for the extension, but the department’s so slammed they actually put “we’re working on it, don’t call the telecenter” on their website so I haven’t bothered them. Plus I’m getting EB right now so I have food in the pantry! I’m not actually qualified for any of those Etsy jobs. I could do some of them, but I wouldn’t stand out in a stack of resumes. -m