Hugs aren’t going to fix this

The damnable state employment commission has managed to hang up my final unemployment check after they discovered, ten weeks late, that they should have had me file a new unemployment claim in October instead of continuing me on extended benefits from last fiscal year.  They also discovered that, based on the new information, they’d overpaid me by $50 a week ever since October and that I now owe them $235 back by their reckoning, and until this mess is straightened out, they won’t turn loose of the check.  They mailed me a form yesterday that I must sign and return before they’ll release the check.  They have to receive the form today if the check isn’t to be held up.  They may decide that they’re going to hold the check anyhow, even if I do somehow manage to get the form to them in time.  Their offices will be closed all next week for the Christmas holidays, so if I can’t get the form to them today, they won’t receive it until the thirtieth.

This means I don’t have any money to pay the mortgage for December, nor for January (I knew already that I didn’t have the January money), nor do I have money to pay any other bills whatever.

Merry goddamn Christmas, Texas Workforce Commission.