* I lost my job on September 25, 2009.
* I applied for Unemployment Insurance on September 25, 2009.
* I received one official form to fill out, asking me questions such as “have you looked for work” and wondering if I was too sick to have worked. This form was to correspond with the week of September 27th through October 3rd, 2009, and also for the week of October 4th through 10th, 2009.
* I was instructed to mail my form in on October 11th, 2009, which was impossible, because October 11th was a Sunday. No mail is picked up or delivered on Sundays. It was followed by October 12th, 2009, which was a Monday, but also was a Federal Holiday (Columbus Day). No mail can be picked up or delivered on Federal Holidays. This means my official form was picked up Tuesday, October 13th, 2009, instead.
* I have NEVER received any of these important forms since that first one. NONE!
* I got a part time, ten hour a week job starting October 27th, 2009. Despite many attempts searching the EDD website, and countless attempts to actually speak with someone from the EDD on the phone, I have not been able to reach them. If they bothered to continue to mail me forms each week, I would be more than happy to indicate on those forms that I have obtained part time employment. I cannot do this if I never get sent any more forms.
* I had my official telephone interview on October 28th, 2009. The person I spoke with waited until after the two hour assigned time that I was supposed to be available to call me. Once I got him on the phone, I was given perhaps ten minutes to speak with him. I got questioned about how I lost my last job, and we went over this again and again. I was instructed to fax him a copy of the letter I got from the school district that informed me my job was over. This EDD man hung up the phone before I could even say one word about having finally gotten a part time job.
* Right now, as I write this blog, it has been 37 days since I applied for Unemployment Insurance. In this time, I have received exactly zero checks, for exactly zero dollars and zero cents.
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