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What is the average unemplyment benefits where you live?

Right now, the maximum unemployment benefit for California is $450/week. Doesn't matter about dependents or marital status.

Disability insurance, (NOT work comp) maxes at $987/week.

The benefit amount, like unemployment and work comp, is based on your earnings.

Looks like the max work comp benefit is $881/week.
 
About £50 a week. (may be more now that I think about it, depending on where you live and who you live with) I've never claimed it when not living with parents.
 
HAL9000 said:
About £50 a week. (may be more now that I think about it, depending on where you live and who you live with) I've never claimed it when not living with parents.
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But as you were saying in the other thread you guys seem to break yours down into different categories. You said you have a housing benefit of something like 450 pounds. UE benefits aren't broken down like that here for the most part. If you wanted to you could take your whole $320 weekly check and spend it on hookers and blow. And not a few actually do.
 
Locut0s said:
But as you were saying in the other thread you guys seem to break yours down into different categories. You said you have a housing benefit of something like 450 pounds. UE benefits aren't broken down like that here for the most part. If you wanted to you could take your whole $320 weekly check and spend it on hookers and blow. And not a few actually do.
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Ahh well yeah, we break ours down, and ultimately it can really add up, but we want people to have jobs, so JSA (Job Seekers Allowance) is very low, housing benefit gets paid straight to your Letting Agency, so you never see it, it just pays your rent. Etc.
 
HAL9000 said:
Ahh well yeah, we break ours down, and ultimately it can really add up, but we want people to have jobs, so JSA (Job Seekers Allowance) is very low, housing benefit gets paid straight to your Letting Agency, so you never see it, it just pays your rent. Etc.
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This makes much more sense. When I worked at 7-11 every month we had "welfare Wednesdays" as they came to be known. The day of the week that welfare checks would be given out. Guys would come in and blow a significant amount of it on cigs, and junk food. I'm sure they bought lots of liquor too, only we don't sell that in convenience stores here.

I'm assuming that you guys in the US have a similar phenomenon?
 
Locut0s said:
This makes much more sense. When I worked at 7-11 every month we had "welfare Wednesdays" as they came to be known. The day of the week that welfare checks would be given out. Guys would come in and blow a significant amount of it on cigs, and junk food.
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Yeah I imagine that's why we developed this system, you get enough money to live on, but you have to use it to live.
 
HAL9000 said:
Yeah I imagine that's why we developed this system, you get enough money to live on, but you have to use it to live.
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Much much more reasonable. Though I'm sure the management at lots of retail outlets love "welfare Wednesdays". I know we certainly saw an uptick in our sales.
 
Locut0s said:
Much much more reasonable. Though I'm sure the management at lots of retail outlets love "welfare Wednesdays". I know we certainly saw an uptick in our sales.
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Oh yeah I'm sure for you guys it works out great, but for people who can't budget properly it's probably a very bad idea, I know that I for one can't budget properly and that would do me in, I'm having a really tough time sticking to my budget and I can imagine that temptation.
 
HAL9000 said:
Oh yeah I'm sure for you guys it works out great, but for people who can't budget properly it's probably a very bad idea, I know that I for one can't budget properly and that would do me in, I'm having a really tough time sticking to my budget and I can imagine that temptation.
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It was a joke. These guys who came in to spend their welfare checks on cigs COULDN'T budget properly. The only people it worked out for were the people selling the cigs.
 
$405 per week in New York. Enough to barely cover a mortgage, and another bill or two. Nowhere near enough to actually get by.
 
Last year, it was about $415 per week in KY with a $25 federal subsidy ($440 or so per week). Don't know if the federal subsidy is available. Also, don't know if it goes beyond the 26 weeks max now but I suspect that it does.

BoomerD said:
Hell, why not...it's FREE MONEY!!
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Heh.
 
Now I'm kind of curious exactly how much the government indirectly subsidizes Walmart through spending from welfare, food stamps, unemployment, etc..
 
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