Intermittent PFL is a joke

PSA! Intermittent PFL is not real if you make 70% of your wages for that week!!!

So I saw on the website that I could take PFL hourly, daily, weekly, or monthly. I work as a contractor in the school and thought I’d use the PFL to cover unpaid school days that are off. I thought by going back to work I was helping society but then I could also still make sure my baby has all her needs met and I would come out ahead financially and still get the benefits I’ve paid into…. Wrong. Apparently, if you work at all and the amount you make is higher than the weekly benefit, any time you take off is basically forfeited. For instance, for the 4 day weeks that schools have that I work, if I try to get PFL for that 5th day off, then I will technically make the weekly benefit amount and thus I’m just forfeiting the weeks PFL to my own worked wages… how is that bonding time with my baby? In other words, I should have taken the entire week off to come out in the same place financially, but to have actually had time with my kid. I’m so sad. I had no clue. They shouldn’t say you can take it hourly or daily without noting that your hourly or daily would need to somehow equal more than 30% of lost wages otherwise it’s pointless.