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Radio Diary: When The Unemployment Benefits Never Come

Published September 17, 2020 at 9:50 AM CDT
Job seekers exercise social distancing as they wait to be called into the Heartland Workforce Solutions office in Omaha, Neb., July 15, 2020. (Nati Harnik/AP)
Job seekers exercise social distancing as they wait to be called into the Heartland Workforce Solutions office in Omaha, Neb., July 15, 2020. (Nati Harnik/AP)

Millions of Americans still haven’t yet received their benefits after being laid off during the pandemic. Denise Mines is one of them. She’s a university librarian who lives in Boynton Beach, Florida. Denise was furloughed on April 17. First thing she did: followed all of the steps to get her unemployment benefits. Should have been pretty easy, right?

In this diary … we hear from:

Denise Mines, a university librarian who lives in Boynton Beach, Florida.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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