When the Paycheck Stops
The AFL-CIO’s resource booklet, When the Paycheck Stops, is available on this website in full.

Specific sections of When the Paycheck Stops also are available:

When the Paycheck Stops:

• Start with yourself
• Where to go for help
• Taking care of business
• Dealing with creditors
• Keeping a roof over your head
• Putting food on the table
• Managing utility payments
• Staying insured
• Staying healthy
• Getting a job

How to Survive Without a Job
These days, it's safe (though discouraging) to assume that you'll eventually have to live through a period of time where you aren't working. Unemployment poses questions, such as how you can pay bills and where you'll be working next. It's important to remember that this situation is more common than you think, and you can survive a time without a job.

A 12-Step Program for Surviving Unemployment
Lost your job and don’t know where to turn? Relax, according to the National Association for Counseling and Development, the average person goes through five to seven careers and ten to 12 job changes in their lifetimes. So how do you cope with the stress associated with losing a job and trying to finding another? Experts say to take it one day at a time and follow this 12-step program. 

A survival guide for the unemployed
Just lost your job?  These 13 tips will help you find ways to cope, from keeping up your spirits to prioritizing your spending. 

What to Do When You've Been Laid Off
You’ve heard the talk around the office for some time that management was considering layoffs to reduce expenses. Rumors of who would be laid off and when they would be told have dominated work conversations and kitchen-table discussions.

So how should you handle what happens on Friday afternoon when you and your coworkers are called into a conference room?

Laid Off: 16 Ways to Make the Best of a Bad Situation
A layoff can be one of the most stressful events in a person’s life. If your number comes up during downsizing, it can feel as if you have lost your reason for being. During this traumatic time, there are some steps you can take to ease the pain and make the best of things. 

Job Rights & Survival Strategies: A Handbook for Terminated Employees
A valuable self-help guide for the newly unemployed and those who want to be prepared when and if "the axe falls."

Now you can arm yourself with the latest expert advice about legal options and job loss coping methods. This valuable book was written by experienced lawyers Paul H. Tobias and Susan Sauter. In its eighteen chapters you'll discover information you cant' afford to miss. With tens of thousands of people being laid off every year, you need to know your employee rights. Chapters cover such diverse topics as how to take action against discrimination, how to deal with the judicial and administrative systems, and how to copewith the financial and emotional burdens caused by job loss.

How To Deal With Unemployment
In the state of our sad, sad economy, many people have lost their jobs. Unemployment can be extremely tough. The government checks cannot compare to the salary that you may have been used to, and looking for a new job seems like an endless and futile task. Here are a few ways to deal with the stresses of being unemployed. 

Got Laid Off? What To Do When You Lose Your Job
Unless it’s happened to you, it’s hard to explain the anxiety one feels upon getting laid off. But it’s not time to panic just yet, if you’re able to channel that anxiety towards doing things that are more productive.

What to do once you've been handed a pink slip
Obviously, the top priority for a worker who has been laid off is to find a new job, but there are several other important matters to sort out and take care of once you've been handed a pink slip. Getting to the nearest bar as quickly as possible does count as an "important matter" in this circumstance, but first we'll focus on health insurance, your 401(k), unemployment insurance and those lovely "golden handcuffs" -- stock options.  

How to Deal with Unemployment?
The economy has left us with a bitter taste in our mouth. Perhaps, for some of us, it will lead to unemployment. How can you manage?