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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Middle of July.

And it needs to fricking hurry up. I don't know how much longer my husband and I can keep helping family. Plus my husband lost his job and there isn't going to be a going back to that. Since we got a small severance his applying for unemployment was for nothing. Apparently $46,000 makes you unqualified for any relief. It's stressful carrying so many burdens. Lots of people are suffering. You just never hear about them.[/quote] Your husband got a $46k severance package? [/quote]

Yes. For 37 years of loyalty. It was supposed to be $67,000 but the govt took their cut. We have a HSA with 14k in it so we're needing that to cover healthcare for a year. I did manage to save $150,000 in the three years since we paid off our house but when your sister is off work for a hip replacement and needs just about everything that entails for a few months, BIL got cut hours and I can't stand the thought of him not having enough food or no phone, son got laid off so we carried them for four months. It couldn't be helped. Another works gig jobs and needed a car plus rent for a while. Husband went to work one morning and came back home with no job. We're both 60 so at the rate we're going money will start evaporating. We won't make it to SS. If we could tap into our IRA without getting tax f'd we could do all this and not worry. We could split the next stimulus again like the first one, help everyone out with at least enough gas and food for a month. Pay one's rent for a month, house note for another.

We're poor millionaires. But it's really not funny. Something will give way soon. Something good I hope.

My husband was one of 750 that lost their job in the company. We are fortunate to have saved what we did when we did. Still, seeing minuses instead of pluses in the bank account stings, NEVER EVER think your job is forever.

Five of our neighbors no longer have jobs. This corona crap has been hell on lots of people.
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No offense, but you were not the type of family that the stimulus was intended for.  If you're "poor millionnaires" then you are outside the scope of the stimulus.

That said, someone in your family, your husband, your BIL or your son should start working and bringing in additional income for the extended family.  There are still many many jobs at Amazon, third party shippers who contract with Amazon, Door dash, Instacart, Target, Walmart and many other stores that are open that need employees to work.  My neighbor works at Home Depot and they need more employees in most every store.  She says that they don't have enough staff to cover all shifts, especially if/when someone has to take off for illness.  There are many jobs out there and if you don't qualify for stimulus or it isn't enough, someone in your extended family (most likely your son, since he is going to be the least susceptible and in the least danger of getting seriously sick) needs to work.  He can do what my neighbor does.  She goes to work, comes home and immediately tosses clothes in the laundry and showers and washes up.  She's been doing this every week since March (Home Depot never had to close) and no one in their family including her mother who lives with them, have gotten sick.[/quote]

People who ate age 60 should not be working in high contact jobs like Amazon or retail or food industry. That is bananas. I would assume BIL is also upper middle age. Don't be an asshole. PP sounds like she knows how to manage money and I'm sure she can decide when things are so dire financially that it's worth a high- risk person taking a high- risk job without your assistance.

A 60- year- old man lost his job; the chances of him finding comparable employment in this job market at his age are pretty low. They've got years to go before they're eligible for social security and Medicare. Most people in comfortable circumstances like you don't realize how quickly the bottom can drop out. We have a very poor safety net in this country. Because we're a nation of assholes and idiots. [/quote]

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