Serious question:
Why won’t they just give you the severance money you’re eligible for based on your years of service minus the taxes you owe and leave you alone since they want to be done with you so bad???
Instead they’re making you endure the indignity of filing for unemployment as a condition of severance under the guise of calling it “supplemental pay” instead of “severance” to keep from having to pay you a full paycheck. If you get a job no matter the pay you’ll lose your supplemental pay. Every week you have to file for unemployment benefits. In addition to that every week you have to contact Elevance to let them know you’re still unemployed. Any failure to do either one of these things and you won’t get paid.
It was already super traumatic to be RIFed. Having to keep attesting to the department of labor and Elevance is just like picking at the wound. It’s a constant reminder that your a** is still unemployed thanks to corporate greed. You can’t heal from what you’re going through.
And please don’t come for me saying just be thankful you’re getting paid, you shouldn’t complain etc. Because I worked my a-s off for damn near 3 decades only to be cast aside like flaming hot garbage. The least they could do is give me what I more than earned and let me walk away with my dignity.