On the dole

[frualeydis]

I have now had my exam and thus earned another 10 university points. I have also listed myself at the unemployment agency, so I'm now officially on the dole. Let's see how much I get from the unemployment benefit system. I have been full time employed for long enough, but since I've been ill I have no idea how they will calculate that. I should get something. I'll know in a couple of weeks hopefully. I always get very anxious about these kind of things, but hopefully it's just me and everything will go well.

Comments

[therru.livejournal.com]

Sorry if offended you. I have personally had almost only negative experiences with AF, but I thought that it was a bit much to say that they mess things up *wilfully*. I will keep my sarcasms to my own LJ in the future.

[nazgman.livejournal.com]

... they mess things up *wilfully*

I have stacks and stacks of communication with Akademikernas Erkända A-kassa, and the only conclusion I can come to is that they mess things up wilfully. Not necessarily for them but very specifically for me. "I am sorry, but the rules are there to be obeyed." No attempt to think for themselves, to try to understand what is going on. Anyone stooping low enough to come to AEA expecting money for nothing is going to pay for it. The slightest miss-step, even when pushed by AEA, will be punished in the most severe way. Anyone being convicted for "grov vårdslöshet" is obviously the biggest cheater who walked the face of the earth, and has to be thankful that he didn't end up with criminal charges pressed against him. Anyone who provides mismatching information with what is on file at AEA is obviously a cheater, whose unemployment benefit will be stopped instantly. That the mismatch is due to the fact that AEA has forgotten to update their own files is not in the rulebook, so by default the poor unemployed bugger gets kicked in the face for it.

Sorry for the rant, I could go on for pages like this, but I'll stop here. Suffice to say that this is beyond incompetence.

[frualeydis.livejournal.com]

It's not so reassuring for me, since it's AEA I have to deal with. But I'm keeping a positive attitude.

Eva

[nazgman.livejournal.com]

It will probably be OK as long as you're just being the average unemployed person. Don't answer anything on the phone, as they can easily twist your words, do all communication on paper or electronically. Don't volunteer any information, especially not if it's something they don't expect to hear. Be the worst paperpusher and paragrafryttare you can be when dealing with them, because that's the way they think and act themselves. And forget about trying to win a conflict with them, the system is totally skewed.