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I was laid off due to disability after my disability ends can I then sign up for unemployment?
I was going in for surgery and my dr said I need to take off 6 months to heal. so I was laid off 2 days before my surgery.I am in the union so we normally go straight to unemployment, now however I am on disability and it will end in a few months. If there is no work at that time can I then get unemployment since I was laid off and its within a year?
I do look for work. I have spina bifida and scoliosis. I couldnt walk until I was 8 years old yet I have held a job since I was12 and now I'm 32. I have been a plumber for over 10 years . Killing my body just so I wouldnt be one of those lazy people who sits on welfare.I just had surgery and I cant even walk from my car to the front door. No one wants to hire a disabled plumber. My dr says if I continue to be a plumber I won't ever be able to walk again. please don't judge me so quicky. I'm just trying to get the help that I actually deserve unlike the people who abuse the system
I do look for work. I have spina bifida and scoliosis. I couldnt walk until I was 8 years old yet I have held a job since I was12 and now I'm 32. I have been a plumber for over 10 years . Killing my body just so I wouldnt be one of those lazy people who sits on welfare.I just had surgery and I cant even walk from my car to the front door. No one wants to hire a disabled plumber. My dr says if I continue to be a plumber I won't ever be able to walk again. please don't judge me so quicky. I'm just trying to get the help that I actually deserve unlike the people who abuse the system
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- Daniel WLv 51 decade agoFavorite Answer
Classifieds section of your local paper. Open it and get a job
- .Lv 61 decade ago
What union are you in? I'd think they should be the ones to help you. They >might< even find you a job. A job is far better for your health and long-term recovery than being a layabout lout on the dole.
Well, that being the case, Kudos to you for striving so hard to play the hand you are dealt well. My advice still stands -- you already know that being a layabout gains nothing for a man, and you know it because you never have, even though it would have been easy.
With your long experience as a plumber already you will be able to take a more supervisory job. Or a "watcher" type job. In Philadelphia I know the plumbers union could help you even if you can't get down on you hands and knees all the time to work anymore. Look to your union to help, or move to a city where the union is more able to help.
Or -- instead of unemployment some states have small business start up programs in lieu of unemployment -- they use the same money pool, but give it to you in lumpier sums to help get a business started. Start you own business and hire apprentices and laborers to supervise. You could easily get into plumbing inspections -- that labor is mostly walking and driving to inspection sites.
Good Luck!
- 1 decade ago
Geez....I asked u a question ages ago. You didn't answer me. If u can type and use a computer u might try opening a website and making some money teaching people plumbing, etc.
Also, u say your surgery was done recently so it might even improve your situation, but yeah having an online school might work. Or just charging a small fee for plumbing do-it-yourselfers.
Good luck.
