{"id":374185,"date":"2010-02-28T14:00:02","date_gmt":"2010-02-28T19:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10002666"},"modified":"2010-02-28T17:06:53","modified_gmt":"2010-02-28T22:06:53","slug":"man-spends-700-on-cell-phone-minutes-to-get-700-unemployment-check","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/374185","title":{"rendered":"Man Spends $700 On Cell Phone Minutes To Get $700 Unemployment Check"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Filing for unemployment benefits can be an exhausting bureaucratic mess, but it shouldn’t cost you hundreds of dollars. In theory. According to TV station KOB, though, a New Mexico man spent so many hours on hold with the unemployment office that he ran up a $700 cell phone bill. <\/p>\n

Sanchez says his cell phone is his only line, and if he didn’t make the calls to Workforce Solutions, he wouldn’t have gotten his money.<\/p>\n

The bill shows Sanchez made 1,114 calls to the unemployment office in one month. Some days, it took hundreds of calls to get through—each call costing $0.45.<\/p>\n

When he would get through, he says he would be put on hold. One time, he was on hold for almost 3 1\/2 hours. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I think the only thing worse than listening to bad music on hold for the unemployment department has got to be paying 45 cents per minute for the privilege.<\/p>\n

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Man racks up huge cell bill to claim unemployment<\/a> [KOB] (via Huffington Post<\/a> – thanks, Rodrigo!)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Filing for unemployment benefits can be an exhausting bureaucratic mess, but it shouldn’t cost you hundreds of dollars. In theory. According to TV station KOB, though, a New Mexico man spent so many hours on hold with the unemployment office that he ran up a $700 cell phone bill. Sanchez says his cell phone is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4307,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-374185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}