Being unemployed is the pits [View All]

[DavidDvorkin]

In my case, no state unemployment benefits until May, if then. I started Social Security four years earlier than I had planned, so that we'd have something to live on.

Today, I got a letter saying that SS has overpaid me, so I won't get the next two monthly checks. I think that's because of the estimate I gave them of my expected earnings during 2009. As it turns out, those earnings didn't happen, so I'll appeal and, I hope, I'll get the money after all. But in the meantime, there won't be any money coming in. Sigh. I have no idea how long it will take to clear up the problem.

I'm sure there are DUers who are in even worse shape, and they have my full sympathy. It's just that I've been working so hard at being stoic and strong and hopeful, and then I got that letter today, and something broke inside. It's so damned hard, sometimes.