It's been a busy week-Carl found out he is losing his job at the end of June and I found out I'm losing mine in Sept...Carl is a self employed delivery driver-he delivers Amway. Amway is closing their distribution center here in Washington and going with Fed-ex to deliver to their customers instead of using sub-contractors. So of course he will not be eligible for unemployment as he wasn't paying into it. My company is doing away with my position. There are 5 of us on my team that will be affected. We have been told that we can try to find other positions within the company  but if we can't they are offering us a pretty nice severance package, 2 weeks pay plus another week for each year we have worked there. We can also cash out our PTO and apply for unemployment. But there are 3 of us living here (my sister in law lives with us, she has been unemployed for almost 2 years) and we sure as heck aren't going to make it on my income/unemployment. So I am looking for another position within the company but its not looking good right now-hoping something will open that I qualify for soon.