Filing for unemployment does not always work

As a hometown Santa Fean, I am proud and grateful to our courageous Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham for keeping many of us alive. Am also grateful to Patrick Duran from U.S. Rep. Ben Ray Luján’s office for helping me to get my home loan modification after two years of scare tactics from my bank. As a disabled senior, this probably also saved my life.

After COVID-19 forced me to close my home Feldenkrais practice, I managed to get through the state online application and qualified for unemployment. However, since June, I have been locked out of my account and told to phone the unemployment office. I have phoned for two months — and the recording always says to call back or to go online. I cannot be the only person locked out of being able to file for unemployment. I have sent sent messages to both Lujan Grisham and Luján and nobody has replied or helped me. There are only so many beans and rice and corn tortillas I can afford.

Felicia N. Trujillo Santa Fe