I tried to fill out online forms for my brother-in-law and his wife who own a small business. They aren't eligible for unemployment but they are eligible for the $600 relief payments but you've gotta fill out this long long ass form to see if you qualify for unemployment in order to get the $600 relief payment. They ask all kinds of stupid questions including your age, sex and ethnicity. Then they ask for the name of the last company you worked for. For them it was an obscure company in New Orleans 11 years ago. Now, they want to know the address of the company, it's phone number and the name of the supervisor. They have none of this information and don't even know if the company is still in existence. The form won't accept 'Unknown' so I had to make up shit. I was so tired after doing two of those that I couldn't do anything else. Should have had a stiff high ball or at least a beer, dammit.
I think I got the wife's form filled out right but I'm equally certain that I fucked up my brother-in-law's form. They'll probably respond by wondering about a couple of my answers. I mean that's what should happen, isn't it? Look, I've got two college degrees and I found the forms thoroughly confusing. What do people with a GED or even less, do when faced with such nightmare forms? My brother-in-law and his wife speak broken English so without me they would have been fucked.
I remember when trying to fill out health insurance claims for my wife's company, Aetna, which were never ever totally correct, even the corrections contained errors, and thinking what do people without paperwork do to get their insurance claims approved? I suspect that a lot of poorer folk paid for insurance that they never really got.
Okay, I'll get off my soap box.