'I’m about to hit my savings and I really don’t want to do that,' said one man who has been waiting six weeks for his first unemployment check since losing his job as a cook. The rent is now due for more than 30 million people who have filed for benefits.
Eli Oderberg, center, sits with Katie Evers, left, their 4-year-old daughter, Everlee, and the couple's goldendoodle outside their home in southeast Denver on Thursday, April 30, 2020. Oderberg, like 30 million people around the United States who have filed for unemployment benefits after losing their jobs during the coronavirus pandemic, is facing the specter of paying the monthly rent with the flip of the calendar.
Eli Oderberg in Denver is among those swept up in a later wave of layoffs as the pandemic’s effects spread from restaurants to corners of the economy like the oil company where he had worked on apps to track spills and leaks. Still said he called Washington state’s unemployment office dozens of times a day until April 24, when he somehow got into an on-hold queue behind 83 other people. After hours of waiting, he was transferred to a claims specialist, but then the call was dropped. It took him until this week to reach a human, who said there seemed to be a minor glitch in his file that needs to be worked out.
Blaine counts himself lucky: He started receiving unemployment checks three weeks after being laid off on March 17. Several coworkers are still waiting for their money after losing their jobs at Fez, a popular restaurant in Phoenix. “We will be back,” Fez management promised on the restaurant’s Facebook page. “We hope sooner rather than later.”
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