The law deprives workers of unemployment insurance benefits that their employer already paid to the state so their employees have an income source when work is slow or non existent.

As an employee for a roofing contractor I usually claim 3-5 weeks of unemployment when work is slow or nonexistent in the winter.  The times leading up to filing an unemployment claim are usually filled with very limited work and lower than usual pay checks (Sometimes less than half of what I normally earn) 

When I recently filed my unemployment claim I was never told that my first pay check would be withheld until I received a letter in the mail one week after I was suposed to get my check. 

Supposedly this "waiting period" legislation is aimed to help offset the deficit incurred from workers who had unemployment extensions.  Although I support people having some type of relief when they lose their job, if they have already exhausted their unemployment benefits and are under an extension, they should be the ones to forfeit benefits, not people such as myself who are only temporarily out of work.  Not only did I not get my unemployment check, but I was unable to make my child support and health insurance payments.