Hard to feel sorry for them when they were getting higher take home pay by avoiding a lot of taxes that we have to pay every day. They can save up money for situations just like this. I mean, you're not paying into unemployment, but you think you should be able to collect? Sure most employees don't pay unemployment directly but it's factored into their wages. The barber that set up an LLC and paid into unemployment, and is collecting, just as it should be.

But they didn't think a situation like this would ever come up, so they didn't save, and they didn't pay into these programs like almost everyone else thinking it wouldn't effect them, and they didn't save the extra money, and now it happened.

It's like the lottery having a malfunction and refunding everyone their $2, and me complaining for not getting $2 even though I didn't buy a lottery ticket.