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Hey everyone. Just something I've been wondering while looking for work. Suppose I do end up getting a job, but have to travel 30 or so to work and then the 30 back per day. I have a brand new GMC Sierra Extended Cab. I purchased it when I had a great job and only had to drive 5 miles to work each day. I'm wondering with all of the talk with rising gas prices, if I got a job, and ended up not making much money or basically breaking even buying gas so often, if I had to quit because of this reason, would this be good enough cause to get benefits back?
Surely if you are just breaking even in gas because of low wages and high fuel cost, that would be grounds of reinstating your unemployment until you could get something closer or better paying?
I'm not sure about your current car lease, but would you be able to maybe trade the car in for a more gas efficient model? I know this doesn't really address your question, but maybe if this is a possible thing for you to do you might want to look into it. But also, you might need a car like that. Here in New England a larger car is almost required to be able to drive here in the winter.
You may not like what I'm going to tell you but here it is,
A 60 mile daily commute is considered close and the vehicle you own is your problem, not the employer's or the unemployment agency's problem. If you resign because it costs you too much to commute, I'm pretty sure you won't be able to resume filing for unemployment for this reason.
Either you get a more fuel efficient car, or you don't follow-up with the opportunity, or you suck it up. It's your call.
UI, at least here in MN, expects you to apply for work 25 miles away so the 30 would be okay not to apply for. Your information handbook should give you the guidelines as to what they expect you to do. I don't know about other states, but ours can be easily viewd/downloaded from the website.
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