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To: TimF who wrote (50972)	2/29/2008 1:14:03 PM
From: cnyndwllr	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542940

Tim, re; "A number of these examples are not people who lost their jobs, but rather just decided they didn't want to work any more." That's what the people you're listening to seem to be saying but you should analyze their views more critically. The fact is that leaving a job voluntarily disqualifies a worker from receiving unemployment benefits until they requalify. They can requalify by finding work and meeting earnings milestones. If they requalify then they can draw benefits based on past contributions (the earlier employment) but only if they become once again unemployed for a reason which does not disqualify them from benefits. I'm pretty sure that the way it works is that if those requirements are met then California goes back a few quarters and computes their benefits based on the contributions paid in for those quarters. Each employer's current, continuing contributions for their current employees can vary slightly based on their percentage of the total of the aggregate quarter's wages. To say, as you do, that people who just don't want to work anymore are gaming the system does those drawing such benefits a real disservice. (Shades of "welfare queens" bitching by those who want to see all entitlement programs as being dominated by greedy, grasping, shamsters taking money out of the hands of hard working Americans like yourself?) Get away from the dark side and join those of us who can see the light. Ed