By Paul Briand
Seacoast Media Group

Jen Montgomery, a pregnant mother of three who lives in Dover, says she’s been unemployed since March 23 from her bartending job in Portsmouth. As of Thursday, May 7, she said, she has not received an unemployment check. Courtesy photo.

Jen Montgomery, a mother living in Dover, said she has been unemployed since March 23 from her job as a bartender at the Elks Club in Portsmouth because of the coronavirus pandemic. She began filing for unemployment with New Hampshire Employment Security right away.

As of Thursday, May 7, she had not received a single payment, she said.

“I’ve been applying for unemployment since then and it said pending,” she said in an email to Seacoast Media Group. “I’ve called the unemployment office five times and they say the state is looking into my wages. Then Monday this week I was denied again, so for the last seven weeks I’ve had no income, still no stimulus check. I have three kids and I’m pregnant with my fourth. How long is this going to keep happening? I was told again by unemployment to file a new claim again this week and see where it goes, and I explained to them that the system is not fair and I literally have nothing.”