How Getting Unemployment Cancelled Really Was a Shocking Development

Mark McWiggins
Aug 28, 2024

© Mark McWiggins

I found out recently that I couldn’t reapply to Washington State Unemployment until next January, as which point (if I were depending on this that I would have starved to death (or have been forced to live with my wife in a tiny travel trailer or in our car or something.

Just a word to the wise to anyone who had the same (bad) information that I had: that I could renew for two years.

Best of luck to you … I have 7 more job apps to get out tonight before I can think about sleeping and it’s 10:20pm already!

A guy in a suit holding a looking for a job sign

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