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Feb. 16th, 2011 09:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stormdogI sat down to do my taxes today and, with the help of Google, realized why I never seem to get a refund. I think what was happening was that work was not taking enough tax money out of the bonus pay I got for things like being on call every once in a while. So even with no exemptions, I owed about $200 to the federal government.
On the state side, things were not nearly so rosy. I'd had words with payroll last year after I found that they had taken state tax money out for Illinois when I lived in Wisconsin. I had to file in both states, get a complete refund from Illinois, and then pay Wisconsin with the money I got back. I thought this had been fixed. Apparently I should have paid better attention to my pay stubs, because this year they didn't take out *any* money for state taxes. I owe Wisconsin the better part of two grand. That kind of sucks. But at least I have my tax return done so I can work on filling out my FAFSA. I just may not file the state return right away. I might as well hold on to the money until I have to let it go.
I'm also stressed out about![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
moiracoon and her health. She and I still don't have medical insurance, and she's in the hospital with pneumonia. I had thought that continued coverage was going to be more expensive than I could afford until serinthia pointed out that work was supposed to cover some of it. I called the company administrating the plan and got the *real*, much more manageable, figures, and I'm going to send in the enrollment as soon as I get the info I need from Moira. The coverage is supposed to be retroactive to the point of severance, but I'm worried that bureaucratic red tape will tangle that up like it always does. And in the meantime, because we have a bunch of people in this country who seem to equate universal healthcare with Stalinesque authoritarianism, someone I love is in the hospital with no insurance.
I feel some level of responsibility for her situation. I think I probably shouldn't but I do. It's firstly because I missed a voice mail message from her that, when I got it at one in the morning the next day, scared and distressed me. Second, because it's due to me having been laid off and work having been slow to get me the right paperwork that she and I are without health insurance. I just have felt, in a lot of ways, in the relationship that she and I had, that I wasn't there for her in some of the ways that really mattered to her. I wish I could have done a better job of it now, in this way, than I have. I don't know that there's really anything I could have done to get the paperwork in sooner. I only just got them to send it to the right place last week before the con.
On the state side, things were not nearly so rosy. I'd had words with payroll last year after I found that they had taken state tax money out for Illinois when I lived in Wisconsin. I had to file in both states, get a complete refund from Illinois, and then pay Wisconsin with the money I got back. I thought this had been fixed. Apparently I should have paid better attention to my pay stubs, because this year they didn't take out *any* money for state taxes. I owe Wisconsin the better part of two grand. That kind of sucks. But at least I have my tax return done so I can work on filling out my FAFSA. I just may not file the state return right away. I might as well hold on to the money until I have to let it go.
I'm also stressed out about
moiracoon and her health. She and I still don't have medical insurance, and she's in the hospital with pneumonia. I had thought that continued coverage was going to be more expensive than I could afford until serinthia pointed out that work was supposed to cover some of it. I called the company administrating the plan and got the *real*, much more manageable, figures, and I'm going to send in the enrollment as soon as I get the info I need from Moira. The coverage is supposed to be retroactive to the point of severance, but I'm worried that bureaucratic red tape will tangle that up like it always does. And in the meantime, because we have a bunch of people in this country who seem to equate universal healthcare with Stalinesque authoritarianism, someone I love is in the hospital with no insurance.I feel some level of responsibility for her situation. I think I probably shouldn't but I do. It's firstly because I missed a voice mail message from her that, when I got it at one in the morning the next day, scared and distressed me. Second, because it's due to me having been laid off and work having been slow to get me the right paperwork that she and I are without health insurance. I just have felt, in a lot of ways, in the relationship that she and I had, that I wasn't there for her in some of the ways that really mattered to her. I wish I could have done a better job of it now, in this way, than I have. I don't know that there's really anything I could have done to get the paperwork in sooner. I only just got them to send it to the right place last week before the con.
