Very pissed!! September 18, 2007

I am so upset right now I am not sure what to do at this point. I was laid off from my job the end of July. In the state I live in I am entitled to 30 weeks of unemployment benefits. Well I just found out TODAY that I am being denied all benefits since I am going to school full time. I am in a Associates program and not a certificate program, and to continue receiving benefits, I must either one drop out completely, or  drop to part time and lose all my financial aid. I am NOT dropping out of school or going part time! What really gets me pissed off, is that 2 months before signing  up for classes, I went to the unemployment office to make sure that if I went back to school I would not lose my benefits. I was told that I need to fill out paper work to get the extension, but as long as I was still looking for work I would continue to receive money, EVEN if I was denied the extension. Now I am being told I have to be in certificate program off there approved list. The list consists of Medical Assistant, and Medical Coding and Billing Specialist. Great professions but not what I want to do. I am really not pissed about the money, it’s the principal of the situation, I was told one thing and now what I was told is not being honored. I do have the right to appeal that ruling, and I will. When I was told this I did ask why wasn’t this on the paper work I filled out for school, and the response was “We can’t give out any negative information on the program, then people would sign up for it.” No shit, but if I was told that this was going to happen I would have gone part time or done one of the “approved” programs… UGH!!!!!!!!!!!! I hate this fucking state!