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May 26, 2020

How to pay rent when you can't afford it

  • If you're scrambling to make rent, consider the following steps before resorting to high-interest loans.
    • By MELISSA LAMBARENA
    NerdWallet

    After Megan Pearson's job as a restaurant server was put on hold because of COVID-19 -related stay-at-home orders, the single mom had to figure out how to come up with the rent for her apartment in Brooklyn, New York.

    “I posted my frustration on Facebook with trying to get through to unemployment the first week,” Pearson says. “I probably made 200 phone calls before I got it all settled.”


     
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