FUCK YOU E.I.!!!
I have been paying into you for 10 years! Now I get sick, have to apply for benefits through you and you give me a lousy $120 a week! WTF is that? That doesn’t even cover rent and bills! Not to mention groceries, medications, and bus trips to the doctor. So where is all the money I have been putting in? Oh right! I forgot that it’s going to OTHER people. WTF! I pay into this bullshit so that someday, if I need it, it’ll be there for me but nooo. I get sick at work, lose time and wages and so you decide based on what I made while I was working sick, I get shit all. Oh and lets not forget the factor in that unemployment is low in my area. That’s GREAT. But I’m not fucking applying for this shit because I CAN’T find a job. FUCK. Who comes up with this fucking shit. If you’re sick, and applying for sickness benefits, you should be entitled to what you’ve put in. OR they should take a look at your living expenses and go by that. That you for making my life worse you fuckers.
This article appears in Jul 31 – Aug 6, 2008.
funny eh.. i was helping a friend try to calulate her EI, using their web site… the unemployment rate in yr area will determine the amount of $$ u receive. Higher unemployment = more $$ LOW unemployment =lower weekly rate. UNREAL!
funny eh.. i was helping a friend try to calculate her EI, using their web site… the unemployment rate in yr area will determine the amount of $$ u receive. Higher unemployment = more $$ LOW unemployment =lower weekly rate. UNREAL!
Actually Volux that system, while perhaps unfair to urban workers, it works quite well for those in rural communities where work is usually seasonal. My beef with EI is that fishermen can get it even after raking in a shitload of cash during the season. Their net take home pay alone is more than most workers and its the little guy who gets screwed over by EI rules while Mr. Fisherman sits home and counts his cash while getting top EI payments.
It seems like everybody gets confused about EI rules and regulations. The regional rate of unemployment has no effect whatsoever on special benefits (sickness, maternity, parental, compassionate care). It only comes into play on regular benefits. And with regular benefits, the unemployment rate does not affect your weekly benefit rate. It affects eligibility, and how many weeks of entitlement you get. In Halifax, it takes more hours to qualify than it would in Cape Breton. You’d also get fewer entitlement weeks in Halifax. And that’s because Halifax’s regional rate of unemployment is at 5.3% right now, while Eastern NS is at 14.7% Check it out yourself:http://srv129.services.gc.ca/eiregions/en/canadaei.aspxSo presumably it’s easier to find a job in HRM than in Eastern NS, which is why it takes more to qualify in HRM and you get fewer weeks.And sure you may pay into it for years and years and you feel like somebody else is getting your money. But you pay relatively little into EI. For example, I’m looking at a pay stub of mine. Year-to-date gross earnings is at $7492.91 on this particular stub. Year-to-date EI payments is given as $129.62. A quick calculation shows that 1.73% of my gross earnings are going towards EI payments. So let’s assume I gross $30000 over 52 weeks ($576.92 per week). 1.73% of that is $519. So over a year I contributed $519 to EI. EI will pay me 55% of my average weekly earnings: 55% of $576 is $316.80. So if I collect EI, after 2 weeks I’ve more than got my return off of 1 year worth of work. I’d get a minimum entitlement of 14 weeks ($4435.20) and a maximum of 36 weeks ($11404.80) For the 14 weeks, it would take me 8.5 years to put in as much as I took out, and 22 years to do the same if I got 36 weeks. THAT IS ONLY ONE EI CLAIM.Think about it for a while…