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How do you feel about people who are taking advantage of the Covid-19 "offers"?

Posted on 8/18/20 at 2:37 pm
Posted by TheAstroTiger
Member since Jun 2018
3101 posts
Posted on 8/18/20 at 2:37 pm
A guy I work with is bragging about how he is in a 6 months mortgage forbearance. He had no circumstances that would cause him to need the forbearance. He is paying down credit card debt instead of paying his mortgage.


Another guy I know quit his job. Filed for unemployment and was approved. Making more now than before he quit.

How do you feel about these types of people? We all know a few.
This post was edited on 8/18/20 at 2:38 pm
Posted by BeerMoney
Baton Rouge
Member since Jul 2012
8376 posts
Posted on 8/18/20 at 2:38 pm to
What goes around, comes around.
Posted by X123F45
Member since Apr 2015
27429 posts
Posted on 8/18/20 at 2:39 pm to
0% on student loans means 100% toward principle.
Posted by NIH
Member since Aug 2008
112675 posts
Posted on 8/18/20 at 2:40 pm to
Makes me fricking sick. I work hard. Stand for the flag and kneel for the cross. Pay my taxes. Provide for my family. No one is giving me a damn thing.

Posted by TheWalrus
Member since Dec 2012
40559 posts
Posted on 8/18/20 at 2:40 pm to
Scum, absolute scum. But people will find ways to take advantage of virtually any policy.
Posted by Obtuse1
Westside Bodymore Yo
Member since Sep 2016
25677 posts
Posted on 8/18/20 at 2:40 pm to
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We all know a few.


Do we?
Posted by Murray
Member since Aug 2008
14421 posts
Posted on 8/18/20 at 2:41 pm to
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bragging about how he is in a 6 months mortgage forbearance. He had no circumstances that would cause him to need the forbearance. He is paying down credit card debt instead of paying his mortgage.


Ultimately he still has to pay the mortgage.

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Another guy I know quit his job. Filed for unemployment and was approved. Making more now than before he quit.



I can't tell you what I'd do now because my income hasn't been that low since I was 17. At 17, I would've done it.
Posted by BluegrassBelle
RIP Hefty Lefty - 1981-2019
Member since Nov 2010
99073 posts
Posted on 8/18/20 at 2:41 pm to
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How do you feel about these types of people?


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A guy I work with is bragging about how he is in a 6 months mortgage forbearance


So he's bragging that he's delaying the inevitable? Well, that's stupid.

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Another guy I know quit his job. Filed for unemployment and was approved. Making more now than before he quit.



The $600 boost expired at the end of July. What state are you in? Here in Kentucky you're not getting paid more than what you made without that boost (and the boost is temporary).
Posted by Lsupimp
Ersatz Amerika-97.6% phony & fake
Member since Nov 2003
78684 posts
Posted on 8/18/20 at 2:41 pm to
I am judging nobody , considering that our government is actively plotting ways to screw over as many people as possible and may continue to do so indefinitely. When your government is arbitrary and focused on limiting your rights and obliterating the economy of the country you live in-do what you have to do to put yourself in a better position.
Posted by TigerDude80
METRY
Member since Nov 2007
1737 posts
Posted on 8/18/20 at 2:42 pm to
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A guy I work with is bragging about how he is in a 6 months mortgage forbearance. He had no circumstances that would cause him to need the forbearance. He is paying down credit card debt instead of paying his mortgage.


Hmmmm. Not a bad idea. But I have no credit card dept. The 6 months is going to be added at the end of his mortgage.
This post was edited on 8/18/20 at 2:44 pm
Posted by TheAstroTiger
Member since Jun 2018
3101 posts
Posted on 8/18/20 at 2:42 pm to
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I can't tell you what I'd do now because my income hasn't been that low since I was 17. At 17, I would've done it.


In his 30's.
Posted by GaDawg9977
Member since Aug 2016
2399 posts
Posted on 8/18/20 at 2:42 pm to
Not to mention the ones getting “Covid vacations”, paid to stay home for 2 weeks because they have a sniffle or headache. Then they come back and take their PTO vacations. Hunting season coming up, think im coming down with something.
Posted by Displaced
Member since Dec 2011
32713 posts
Posted on 8/18/20 at 2:43 pm to
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he is in a 6 months mortgage forbearance. He had no circumstances that would cause him to need the forbearance. He is paying down credit card debt instead of paying his mortgage.

I don't fault this guy at all.
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Another guy I know quit his job. Filed for unemployment and was approved. Making more now than before he quit.
this dude is a piece of shite and I hope he has no job to go back to.
Posted by eScott
Member since Oct 2008
11376 posts
Posted on 8/18/20 at 2:43 pm to
Posted by X123F45
Member since Apr 2015
27429 posts
Posted on 8/18/20 at 2:44 pm to
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Hmmmm. Not a bad idea...


Except that your mortgage will now say in forbearance on your credit bureau
Posted by jcaz
Laffy
Member since Aug 2014
15641 posts
Posted on 8/18/20 at 2:44 pm to
I mean I wouldn’t brag but it’s not a bad idea to pause mortgage payments for 6 months to knock out credit cards and free up some budget space. Corporations do crafty accounting tricks all the time.
Posted by Packer
IE, California
Member since May 2017
7811 posts
Posted on 8/18/20 at 2:44 pm to
The discount on auto insurance was nice. We all took advantage of Covid in some way.
Posted by goofball
Member since Mar 2015
16867 posts
Posted on 8/18/20 at 2:44 pm to
I’m okay with filing for unemployment if you lost your job.

Too many states are trying to shut everything down on an election year and they don’t give a shite if it destroy people’s livelihoods.

But screw people that abuse the system.
Posted by SEClint
New Orleans, LA/Portland, OR
Member since Nov 2006
48769 posts
Posted on 8/18/20 at 2:44 pm to
Get as much as you can as easiest as you can. There are billionaires out there.
Posted by ForeverLSU02
Albany
Member since Jun 2007
52148 posts
Posted on 8/18/20 at 2:44 pm to
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mortgage forbearance.
does interest continue to accrue?
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