I will also look into unemployment if worse comes to worse.
Why wait, you worked, you got laid off that's what it's for...There's absolutely no shame in filing...Heck if I was you I would start the paperwork today since you know your end date (that's what I advise my contractors to do), why would you give up that money?
Me:40 W: 39 T: 17 years M: 15 years S-9 D-6 D final 11/10/2009
"We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems."