'Here we are this fourth week of no income and it's starting to wear a little thin,' Jackson told CBS News last week. He was getting benefits during April, but he, too, received the state's letter in May asking him to verify his identity, which he says he responded to immediately. Majid Jackson, a 28-year-old table games dealer, hasn't received an unemployment check in several weeks. That was terrible.' Majid Jackson, a 28-year-old table games dealer, has three young children and a wife who is also out of work because of the pandemic and has had trouble getting unemployment benefits. I mean there were three days I ate like a tomato and an apple the whole day because I didn't have nothing. 'That was downright bad,' Ryan said Wednesday. She also had cut back on food for her dog and cat at times, saying last week, 'I have to eat, too.' Ryan says she's fallen behind on her bills and had to decide between buying food and medicine. 'There were days that I called over 200 times in one day and couldn't get through,' Ryan told CBS News last week about her efforts to restore payment. On Wednesday she received benefits for the first time in weeks, when she said she received two weeks' worth of checks of the eight she is owed. She received a letter last month from Michigan's Unemployment Insurance Agency (UIA) asking her to verify her identity. Robin Ryan has worked as a poker dealer for more than 20 years.
