600 dollar tease

HoneyNut

HoneyNut

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The stimulus check is displaying in my bank account already, but it says the post date is 1/4. Nooooooo
 

At least it’s showing, it’s not showing on mine yet, a d I have kinda, sorta already spent it. Buying the puppy and all the puppy stuff, 🤣, doing my part to help the economy.
 
i have been dealing with NJ unemployment since March. school district figured a way to continue paying us after everything started shutting don in middle of March. got paid for everything except what would have been "spring break" in April. by then there was literally nobody to actually talk to. the handful of people working from home won't even tell you their last name or give you a number for contact. whoever concocted this work from home thing didn't include WORK phones. NOBODY wants to give out their home phone number to strangers!

so i go to see if i got stimulus and find that i've had mess of deposits from UI... like over $10,000!! now need to find out if i could have just continued UI in September. i didn't return to school (teacher aide) cuz doctor said age and pre-existing condition would make it way to dangerous. first thought was to pay off most/all of my "new" (to me) car that i started payments on just last January.
 
Yosh said:
And also useless for many who have had no loss of income due to the pandemic. I hope they donate it to others more needy, but I expect most will just put it in the bank.
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So you believe that those of us who are working should be giving our stimulus money to someone whose not? That seems a bit presumptuous.
 
Yosh said:
And also useless for many who have had no loss of income due to the pandemic. I hope they donate it to others more needy, but I expect most will just put it in the bank.
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I kind of agree, I think the income limit for receiving the stimulus payment was a little high, and it certainly makes more sense to only give it to people who have lost income from the pandemic. But one can only hope there is a sound financial reason for the choices the politicians made about the stimulus distribution (ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha).
 
If the unemployed are getting $300 a week per person in a single household that's $1200. That's almost as much as I make going out there every day to work. You expect me to believe that they need assistance? Come on! You seem to forget that those of us who are working right now are also at higher risk and we have bills to pay too. I think it's wrong to try to guilt people into giving money to others when they are not without funds. They have options for assistance. We don't. We still have to buy our groceries and pay our bills. We don't get to live rent and utility free during this. We don't get any food stamps. We are still having to take care of ourselves. I need that $600 for glasses. I'm not giving it to someone whose getting $1200 a month to sit on their butt. Whether by choice or otherwise. If that makes me selfish then so be it. I don't see anyone offering to help me pay for the things I can't afford. It would be different if there were no jobs out there for them to get. Sometimes the way people think just irritates me.
 
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fmdog44 said:
Why? This thing is a joke. I have no need for the first one and even less of a need for this check. People making $74,999 get the same check as those that have not worked in 6,7,8,9 months?
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I think it was people whose AGI was less than 70,000. Seriously, If you don’t need it, give it to charity or me
 
MarciKS said:
If the unemployed are getting $300 a week per person in a single household that's $1200. That's almost as much as I make going out there every day to work. You expect me to believe that they need assistance? Come on! You seem to forget that those of us who are working right now are also at higher risk and we have bills to pay too. I think it's wrong to try to guilt people into giving money to others when they are not without funds. They have options for assistance. We don't. We still have to buy our groceries and pay our bills. We don't get to live rent and utility free during this. We don't get any food stamps. We are still having to take care of ourselves. I need that $600 for glasses. I'm not giving it to someone whose getting $1200 a month to sit on their butt. Whether by choice or otherwise. If that makes me selfish then so be it. I don't see anyone offering to help me pay for the things I can't afford. It would be different if there were no jobs out there for them to get. Sometimes the way people think just irritates me.
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I agree and when they were getting 600, wow, no wonder they didn’t want to go back to work.
 


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