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Blogger Loses Unemployment Check Because of Ads

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the time-for-an-injection-of-common-sense dept.

Techdirt is reporting that one unfortunate, unemployed New York lawyer recently had her unemployment benefits greatly reduced because of the incredible $1/day she was earning via ads on her blog. "The whole thing sounds like a bureaucratic nightmare, with NY State asking her to get a form from her new 'employer' who didn't exist. Then NY Department of Labor started giving her all sorts of contradicting information, and eventually an 'investigation' into her 'business' — during which time her unemployment benefits were stopped entirely. She's now pulled the Google AdSense from her blog (total earned over the life of the blog $238.75)."

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  1. Re:Horay government by melikamp · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Yeah, people who don't have insurance right now because they cannot afford it, they literally can't wait.

  2. Troll by DogDude · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    You know, if you tea baggers want to whine about big government, why aren't any of you smart enough to start with the biggest expenditure and the biggest waste: the military?

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  3. Re:nothing new by Thelasko · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Back in 2000 I was denied unemployment benefits because I made the mistake of telling the interviewer I had tried to get some contract positions.

    I'm currently unemployed and someone just told me that I would still qualify for unemployment if I worked at Walmart because they pay so much less than what I made at my previous job.

    Man, I'm glad I didn't take that person's advice.

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