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EI was originally set in place to help people with funding while unemployed. Getting the money from them doesn’t sound hard. Type in codes, give reports, and fill out forms, busy work. Yet getting paid seems like a never ending maze that requires time and patience. Especially when you do everything right and it still tells you “No”, or even worse “Wait”. It seems I’d be better off not paying into any benefits at all. If I were injured, I wonder if getting the money would be more or less difficult. Talking to representatives is like dealing with a telemarketer who goal is to get you to say “Bye, thanks!”, as if their lives depended on it. Dealing with the computer sounds easier but turns out the same in the end anyway, maybe even worse. If I didn’t have to pay into these fees I probably wouldn’t be in the need for EI in the first place. It seems more and more like a scam set up to fleece the working man. It was my own laziness that caused this problem in the first place mayhap. But, I’m at school right now flooded with homework and class work and shop. The form work isn’t hard at all, and the school work is not more than I can handle, but, the requirements seem to ask too much of us. I have to make sure I have all my personal information and contact to my employment officer, and I also need phone or internet access. Then I have to have the exact dates of when I worked and didn’t, costs and income, and bank information. I’ll also need to retrieve an access code from my home address sent to me by snail mail. This all sounds fine and dandy, but there’s this two-week waiting period before anything can get started and if anything goes wrong in that time, than you have to start all over again at square one. Of course if all of this works out as planned than you did something else wrong, something they never told you about until now. My first problem was not having enough forms filled and filed before the course started. My second one was not filing reports. My next problem was not having the access codes. My next problem was reporting too late. My next problem was that the computer thought I was reporting for last year when I was reporting for this year(I still don’t know how to correct this). If they made this simpler, easier, would scammers take advantage of the system? Or maybe have better results? How many real beneficiaries do they turn away when they halt these would-be scammers with these two-week waiting periods, these multiple forms, these representatives. Their safeguards all seem to have one purpose. To keep the money for themselves. It seems the perfect motive. The less “they” give back the more “they” have. Maybe it’s just paranoia talking, but is who is they? … Okay, now it’s time for me to fess up. I can’t say that I had no part in this. I failed to get my report in on time last year but, even if I did this year it still thinks I’m trying to report for the time I was here in September, which I wish never happened. But, you don’t learn if you don’t bleed, I don’t at least. I can only hope that I can get my funding for this year when I’m not in such a dire need for it.