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Stacy Lira and her husband of 28 years, Armando, outside their home in Victorville on March 29, 2021. Stacy is holding a folder full of unemployment paperwork.
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Stacy Lira was nearly a year into her unofficial job as an unemployment-claim detective when things went from bad to worse.
The 46-year-old mother of three, who lost her job managing an Inland Empire convenience store last spring, was rushed to the hospital in mid-February. She was struggling to breathe after testing positive for COVID-19. But Lira was adamant that she couldn’t leave home without one thing: She needed her carefully filed unemployment records so she could keep calling from the hospital about the nearly $20,000 she says the state owes her family.
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