Wednesday, July 11, 1984

I went to the unemployment office and found out that if I make more than $68.00 a week; I don't qualify for partial unemployment. If I made $67.00 a week, my unemployment compensation would be $35.00 a week, for a total of $102.00 a week. Unfortunately I made $80.00 last week and even though it seems I should be able to draw the remaining $22.00, I can't.

It makes a person want to cheat, since wages are declared quarterly to the government. A person would only have to make sure he had declared his total wages for any particular quarter of the year. It would be helpful knowing when the quarter began, but you could guesstimate. Usually businesses start the quarter at the end of January, but it could be any month. He could declare his weekly pay under the dollar benefit amount and declare one or two weekly pays over the dollar benefit amount in any given quarter, but not consecutively. As long as the amount reported to the unemployment office and figures given to the government by the company for the quarter matched, you'd not have any problems.

I came home from work with a headache, probably caused by the unemployment office, took two aspirin, cleaned out the refrigerator, and added chemicals to the pool. I watched TV until the water had circulated the pool chemicals, then still having a headache, went to bed.