Rob Wile is a breaking business news reporter for NBC News Digital.
This is part of NBC News’ Checkbook Chronicles, a series of profiles highlighting the financial realities of everyday Americans. Becky Melvin can usually be found on her phone — but not for the reasons many other Americans are. Melvin, 61, of the Jacksonville, Florida, area, was laid off from a nearly six-figure public relations job in Nashville, Tennessee, in 2019.
“I don’t have the extra money to go get things done that I need to have done,” she said. Taxes: For the first time in her life, she has delayed paying the federal tax bill she owes this year. She figured she may eventually have to dip into her savings to do so — even though she’d hoped to reserve those funds for mortgage payments. “That is what is most important,” she said. Working life: Melvin said she has built a reputation with customers who order groceries from her.
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