It's the last week of money from the CARES act that I'm entitled to thru Pandemic Unemployment Assistance. $5400 of that money is being held up by @MassGovernor and @MassGov. I need a human being to look at my ID on file, say "OK" and it's done.

They won't do it. Please help me.

9 weeks my claims have been frozen and they asked me to submit additional documents to verify my identity and address. I've submitted multiple proofs of address, waiting to be looked at since June 25th. They keep apologizing and telling me "my suggestion is to keep waiting."

They offer to transfer me to Tier 2, someone higher up at Department of Unemployment Assistance, who may have more sway in expediting my case. Every time they transfer me, I hear an automated message, music for a few seconds, and the call drops. They don't have any answers.

Meanwhile, @TDBank_US is allowed by @MassGov to collect maintenance fees on accounts with less than $100 despite it not being my fault. If I have to wait 9 weeks on income while staying at home to protect neighbors, @TDBank_US shouldn't be allowed to charge me a maintenance fee.

In order to renew and secure a new lease for September, I need to pay my remaining months of rent and utility bills before my landlady will accept the application. Two months have passed since I've been unable to pay these bills and secure housing for September.

It's so hot in this apartment, dusty too, as I live with a roommate who normally is rarely home and who now has to be home because he can't work. He refuses to clean common spaces and will not finish his own dishes. I can't buy an air purifier, AC, or dishwasher. It gets worse.

I keep reaching single digit in my bank account, so I've borrowed a few hundred dollars from friends to keep up on cleaning supplies, medicine, and food. I ran out of SNAP benefits. I have Tourette's, ADHD, ASD, C-PTSD. Surviving takes everything I have right now.

All I want is to receive this money I'm entitled to and pay my friends back, pay my bills, secure my next year of housing for my own apartment where I can properly quarantine, and have money for food, medicine, maybe that purifier and AC too. Bureaucratic bullshit makes me broke.

I'm legitimately sitting here thinking, do I just wait until August 1st to have food money again? Subsist on canned beans and boxed mac and cheese for the next 11 days? Pretend my birthday in 10 days doesn't exist and forget treating myself? I've been isolated this whole time.

Asking for money on Twitter is getting old. I don't want to crowdfund when I have money I'm supposed to be getting. I would rather help other Black trans women crowdfund, especially those in worse situations than me. But I have $4 and two eggs in the fridge. Food is important.

I compartmentalize all of the mentally unsound experiences I've been enduring and I don't talk about them. I grit my teeth, tolerate it, waiting for the Department of Unemployment Assistance to do their thing. They told me "waiting" and "keep calling" were my only options.

I don't understand what I should do or who I should talk to. I only know how to protest, which puts more people at risk of COVID-19. My back is up against the wall. It feels like @MassGov is unintentionally orchestrating my homelessness, again. I'm losing my fucking mind.

@MassGovernor When politicians speak a few times a week and go home to their residences, money in the bank, secured in their survival during the pandemic, it frustrates me. How am I supposed to just sit here and wait? We're all saving lives, but only poor people wait on money.