The cheapest one in my area was ~$325 when I was shopping around. The most expensive was ~$600.

It can get crazy.

Which is moronic because those same people have made it impossible to restrict guns to only “law abiding” people.

Wow. I'm outside of Hartford and was paying $290/week until he went to preschool and it dropped to $250.

But that's not what they are saying.

If the laws were enforced here, the shooter would not have had a gun.

More government works well in many places, just not US

Not all government is incompetent or wasteful. That comes from bad policy and bad staffing, and can be avoided.

Sounds like the folks in charge of this program sure dropped the ball, though, and it should either be reformed or scrapped.

I also had to go through this and confirmed a fraudster nearly got to take benefits. WTF? Theres something severely wrong if someone can find a grocery list of CT SSN numbers and mass apply so easily.

All the employment sites are basically jokes, applied to probably 50 jobs repeatedly for 3 months not a single fuck was given, not a single call back or anything

There's no CT gun registry or registry requirement. There are background checks for any purchase, and a permit needed to carry or purchase ammo.

Their system is so flawed. I’ve received unemployment claims from employees STILL working for me, only to find out that the system was hacked and fraudulent claims were being opened in their names. Such an inefficient and downright unsafe process.

I’ve been waiting to talk to someone since July last year to review my case. My contract with a company was coming to an end so I found another job before the contract end date. That job didn’t pan out (a lot of missed communication)so I applied for UI when they started that new system update, my account was on hold for weeks and then in the end they denied my claim. When I looked at the reason the adjudicator denied my claim but did not contact any of the employers. I have all my docs as evidence but I can’t even get a case hearing.

The main problem with this position is that it ignores the reality that many of our problems with criminals obtaining firearms derives from the ease in which they can obtain them legally in other states.

NYAG did an investigation of crime guns over a 5yr period and found that:

>...for guns with a recorded state of purchase (6,799), 75% of crime guns originated out-of-state in 2015, more than double the national average (29%) of out-of-state sources of crime guns. The difference for low time-to-crime guns is even starker: nationwide, only 17% of guns recovered within three years of purchase originated out-of-state, compared to 76% of these guns in New York in 2015.

Unemployment is also brutally unforgiving. When I was filing I got COVID. It was pretty bad and I was out of commission for a week. Basically a multi-day fever. I missed submitting the "yes, I applied for jobs" message for one week and it negated my entire claim. I had to reapply and start the process over again. Took 2-3 weeks to get approved again. I had to get a personal loan to cover the gap.

I can't imagine why the system would be designed like that short of cruelty toward the unemployed.

I filed week before Christmas and still waiting on approval. Somehow it is denied from previous employer over a year ago, which I did not get laid off by but "voluntarily quit" to start the new job. Why is this relevant?

1 week I did not make a "company contact" and was denied. I understand the rules but I had 11 interviews so focused on preparing instead of applying to Walmart to fulfill narrow obligations...I put a note that I focused on landing actual job, which I did receive an offer.

I appealed both but not expecting anything at all. It's my first time using unemployment and had low expectations but this far exceeded how bad I thought it was.

What do people do that depend on the checks? Just take shit jobs? The system forces you to keep applying but in the real world actual screening and interviews take weeks.

Yeah. The most jailed country in the history of the world doesn’t enforce its laws.

The hell of automated bureaucracy mixed w the hell of bureaucratic personalities as the human face is truly dystopian.

Gotta put a stop to it

People that want more government perplex me.

My own poor choices bud

Pure garbage, they were not helpful at all, was very surprised how shitty and hard to use the system is to use, and if you have an issues w the site you're fucked.

LMAO who hurt you?

This is the system that 80 million $ and 16 years gets you…

Someone filed a claim on one of my coworkers, I had assumed it was identity theft.

I don't understand how this is supposed to work, the unemployment office calls the business to verify. We obviously said no, he still works here.

The apps make you feel that way? I feel that way sometimes, because of poor choices and lack of effort to improve.

I’ve bought Tinder premium, I’ve bought hinge premium. I dislike the premise of the apps making you feel unwanted and ugly so you buy the better service.

And I can walk into home depot buy parts, and can make a gun in my basement, the point is, criminals, will always be criminals, laws only stop law abiding people, criminals will find a way.

And for a less nuanced approach, come and take them, this is not a thing people will roll over for. This is the last straw for freedom, its hard to enforce unjust laws if you would have to risk being shot over them.