Will we all go on welfare?
- Name: Michelle Marshall, 56
- Place: Beverly, N.J.
I have been unemployed since December last year. This is the first time in my 36-year career that I have collected unemployment.
I have applied for more than 140 jobs with no luck in finding one that comes close to meeting my bills. For the past nine years, I have earned $40,000 or more and I am being offered jobs where the salary is $25,000. I am at my wit's end.
If I lose my unemployment benefits, I don't have a clue how I will pay necessities such as gas, electric and food. Not to mention, my car payment and insurance. It would have been really helpful if those of us in this situation had been notified sooner than December 17, that we were losing our benefits.
Now I am faced with trying to find any job at any salary just to eat and keep the electric on. If I am unable to find anything even part-time, I will have no choice but to apply for welfare benefits.
What happens to the other 1.3 million people? Will they go on welfare too? Congress, you just increased the welfare rolls. Wouldn't you rather pay unemployment and have people out looking for jobs instead?
