Financial stress impacting mental health

Financial stress impacting mental health

THE PANDEMIC IS TAKING ANEMOTIONAL TOLL.

WMA━2 NEWSMALLORY SOFASTAII TELLS USWHAT RESOURCES ARE AVAILABTO HELP YOU REBOUND.PEOPLE WANT THEIR UNEMPLOYMENTINSURANCE BENEFITS..

THEY WANTTO SPEAK TO SOMEONE..

AND THEYWANT ANSWERS.

BUT UNTIL THATPOSSIBLE..

THEIR MENTAL HEALTHIS SUFFERING AND A LEGISLATORIS CONCERNED ABOUT GETTINTHEM THE HELP THEY NEED.

11:40mentally it was exhausting, itwas depressing, it wahorrible:06 A COMMONEXPERIENCE FOR THE THOUSANDSTRYING TO GET THROUGH TO THEDIVISION OF UNEMPLOYMENTINSURANCE..

JUDY GUERRIERI,LEGISLATIVE AIDE, STATESENATOR KATIE FRY HESTER 2:41and so in many case, wefirst live person theytalked to in many manyweeks:06 JUDY GUERRIERILEGISLATIVE AIDE FOR STATESENATOR KATIE FRY HESTER ISWORRIED ABOUT THE GROWINGDESPERATION AMONG THOSE WHOHAVE WAITED MONTHS FORBENEFITS Senator Katie FryHester: 8:22 I called somebodyabout 2 Fridays ago at 7pmjust cause I was worried theywerenthrough the weekend and I wasable to talk to this lady, Iwas able to encourage her togo out Saturday to go to alocal food bank:14 SENATORHESTER SURVEYED CONSTITUENTSON THE TIME ITRECEIVE UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITSOR A RESPONSE FROM THEDEPARTMENT OF LABOR AND HOWTHE EXPERIENCE HAS AFFECTEDTHEM OR THEIR FAMILIES SenatorHester 7:48 this personwrites: the months longstruggle to receive the helpIterrible detriment to mymental health, this combinedwith the government mandatedsocial distancing isolationand my own battle with thecoronavirus has been weighingme down everyday.

WITH THEDEPARTMENT INUNDATED BY THEUNPRECEDENTED NUMBER OF CLAIMS..

LEGISLATORS ARE UNABLE TOGET CLAIMANTEXPEDITED..

BUT THEYTO CONNECT THEM WITHADDITIONAL RESOURCES 15:01please call your statesenator, my job is to helpyou, you are my number onepriority and we may not beable to help with theunemployment right now but wewill do everything to makesure you have a roof over youhead and are fed AND THEY'REWILLING TO TAKE YOUR CALL,EMPATHIZE, AND ASSURE YOUYOU'RE NOT ALONE.

JG: 18:11 wecan listen and we can findthem other resources andtharight now IF YOUMENTALLY OR EMOTIONALLY ORHAVING SUICIDAL THOUGHTS CALLTHE STATE2━━1 AND PRESS 1.

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