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My understanding is that top executives are eligible for unemployment benefits even after they've received a huge severance package.  It feels unfair that when our company essentially paid our previous executive director what amounted to 6 months pay in a lump sum that he/she was eligible for unemployment benefits right away.  So our company was then penalized with higher unemployment rates even though we paid out a package generous enough to allow time to find another job.  We also paid for an employment councelor for this individual.    P.S.  In reality this individual did find a another job within 6 months but also collected unemployment benefits during that time.

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