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SheltieLover

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Sat Aug 8, 2020, 04:12 PM Aug 2020

'Eight weeks of money and now they want it back' Unemployed substitute teachers required to payback

https://www.localmemphis.com/mobile/article/news/unemployed-substitute-teachers-required-to-payback-kentucky/417-4c7f9325-8ec0-44ca-ba0f-674b2f7d86a0

Substitute teachers, who collected unemployment for June and July, are receiving letters from state unemployment that they were not eligible for those months.

Author: John Charlton
Published: 6:51 PM CDT August 7, 2020
Updated: 3:05 PM CDT August 8, 2020

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Jefferson County Public Schools employs just over 2000 substitute teachers, and when schools shut down in March due to COVID-19 subs were allowed to collect state unemployment.

If it were any other year, they would not get paid during summer break.

“We’ve never been paid before during the summer, and that’s fine,” Joe Conder, 69, a JCPS substitute teacher for 5 years, said. “But this summer is different."

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'Eight weeks of money and now they want it back' Unemployed substitute teachers required to payback (Original Post) SheltieLover Aug 2020 OP
The Rules In Illinois Are Very Specific ProfessorGAC Aug 2020 #1

ProfessorGAC

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1. The Rules In Illinois Are Very Specific
Sat Aug 8, 2020, 04:19 PM
Aug 2020

Unless one subs enough that the school year average is 24.5 hours, the sub is not eligible for UE.
This requires 3.5 days a week, for the entire school year.
I don't come close to that. I might average 3 days from mid-November to mid-March, but I only do rainy days in the less cold months.
I wasn't planning on filing, because subbing is a sliver of overall income in retirement. I was just curious.
Even if that requirement didn't exist, I'm not sure I could do it. Even if it were legal, I'd feel like I was pulling a scam.

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