Doctor Grandma

My husband is unemployed. Though he got employee of the month twice in the past 6 mos., he was laid off. He was a remote recruiter for a medical management program at a university in Missouri. New management decided to do away with all remote employees. And that, as they say, was that.

We live in SC. Filing for unemployment here in SC, where he worked from home and paid South Carolina state taxes, they say the university never paid any money into SC unemployment. This is not surprising, since they only had one employee who worked from home in South Carolina: my husband. However, it is not our fault, and we should not have to suffer, due to their negligence or ignorance or ineptitude in handling THEIR financial affairs. Of course, that is not how things work. We are suffering, because neither South Carolina nor Missouri will take the responsible step, and give us an unemployment check.

We do not have the ability to wait it out while they fight over who pays the unemployment check to ONE employee who happened to work from home in one state for a university in another. This is the technological age, the 21st century. He is not the ONE SOLITARY EMPLOYEE who worked remotely from home this past 2 years. But we are dealing with the government and bureaucracy of the state of South Carolina.

At this point, he has been without work for 6 weeks, and there is no unemployment check in sight, while they do an “investigation” of his employment at said university. We are letting our bills accumulate to being 2 months due, and then things will begin getting shut off. Thank you, great country and state, for looking out for the working guy, for putting people first, for caring.

I am saying my prayers and begging God for money. Yup, no qualms here. All I want to do is pay my bills. I figure God knows that. There is one job prospect in the near future and if it works out, we may expect a paycheck in, oh, let’s say a month. But that is only a hope at this point. So what we have right now, is a hope & a prayer.

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