if anyone needed a GoFundme, it was this woman (Example of impact of ending unemployment benefits)
glad this article sparked more donations to her gofundme
‘A perfect storm of horrible’: A single mother, whose daughter has anorexia, lost her unemployment benefits — now the rent is due
Michelle Gimlin lies on a carpeted floor beside her 23-year-old daughter who sleeps on a twin bed each night. She cannot afford another bed nor is there space for it in their cramped one-bedroom subsidized apartment located in Davis, Calif.
That’s just one of the many sacrifices she makes for her 5-foot-6 daughter who weighs just 93 pounds.
Her daughter, whose name she asked not to be included to protect her privacy, has been struggling with severe anorexia for three years. Her health providers recommend that she eat 5,000 to 6,000 calories a day, but realistically Gimlin, 50, can only help her eat around 1,000, and that takes hours to accomplish.
Prior to the pandemic, Gimlin worked as a self-employed massage therapist, earning around $4,000 a month. She stopped working in March of 2020, fearing she could contract COVID-19 and spread it to her daughter who is especially vulnerable and cannot get vaccinated due to her medical condition. On top of that, she needs to be with her daughter 24/7 to care for her and ensure she eats.
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But over Labor Day Weekend Gimlin along with some 7.5 million Americans were cut off from unemployment benefits since lawmakers did not extend them past their Sept. 6 expiration date.
That’s left her and her daughter who, is legally blind as a result of her condition and cannot work, without any income.
“It’s a perfect storm of horrible,” Gimlin told MarketWatch. “I’m terrified and sometimes paralyzed with fear and stress. The stress is insurmountable.”
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I literally cannot leave my daughter alone. She has to eat six times a day and each meal takes hours and grocery shopping takes three hours — it’s really, really painful painfully slow.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/a4v6yg-help-eden-fight-anorexia
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/a-perfect-storm-of-horrible-a-single-mother-whose-daughter-has-anorexia-lost-her-unemployment-benefits-now-the-rent-is-due/ar-AAOqPIH?ocid=msedgntp
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of course,
