THE WAY WE WORK NOW

My Unemployment Benefits Are 5 Months Late — and Counting

I first filed in April, and I still don’t know if I’ll ever get paid

Izzie Ramirez
GEN
Published in
4 min readSep 29, 2020

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The Way We Work Now is a series chronicling how people’s lives and careers have fundamentally changed because of the pandemic.

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Izzie Ramirez
GEN
Writer for

Writing about climate, culture & comida wherever I go. Work in: GEN, Bitch Media, VICE, Jezebel, and then some. Medium’s resident Gen Z kid.