Awesome. Looks like the party will be at Glenn's house. ;) Hope they have a good time with the money.

Partly right. Unemployment insurance doesn't come from the employee at all. Only the employer is required to pay it and they eat the cost. The grey area comes about because when certain state wide conditions are met our state also gives 'breaks' to the companies of 50%. During these times I 'THINK' that only part of the money is funded by companiesand the other part is funded by the state. Even if not I also 'THINK' that companies deduct the cost of unemployment insurance from their taxes so one way or the other a portion of unemployment comes from or helps lower the general tax fund. It is a very complicated system so I have not learned everything. In addition part of my opinion is based on the fact that someone unemployed as long as this person claimed to be was probably living on other taxed based systems also. I could be wrong however. I myself closed out all of my retirement accounts instead of living off the states dime. And you can bet I never bought any lottery tickets.

That is my point Outlaw. If unemplyment is funded by the employer and the money taken out of the former employee's paychecks- then it shouldn't be any skin of anyone else's back. When someone wins an unemployment claim, the employment insurance the employer has to pay becomes extremely high. It was my impression that unemplyment funds came from that and not taxes. Please correct me if I am wrong because I genuinely would like to know that.

Welfare checks and such I view alot differently and I agree with those not being spent on frivolous things.

"why do you care so much what they spend their money on??"

My last job made me a 1099 independant contractor (Self Employed). Because of that when I got laid off I didn't qualify for unemployment. I guess I am agravated that "their" free money from the system is buying lottery tickets while I was told tough luck and forced to sell all may assets to survive.

My opinion (and I know what they say about those) is that if your financial status make you incapable of living without receiving federal/state assistance then you have no right to spend that money on a lottery ticket. And yes that opinion does apply to anything else frivolous as well. I also understand that technically unemployment is an insurance system funded primarily by an employee's company.

It is nice to finally here about someone local winning the big money from the lottery! Congratulations to Mr. Jackson and his wife.

As to people spending their unemployment checks on lottery tickets- why do you care so much what they spend their money on?? If they want to spend $100 on lottery tickets instead of groceries, that is on them.