Insurance eligibility doesn’t drop after Twitter plea
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Desperate to keep within union rules for health insurance eligibility, a former writer for the forthcoming television series “The Dropout” tweeted that she needed 80 minutes of writer’s assistant work to keep her health insurance. And it worked.
As reported by the Hollywood Reporter, writer-director-producer Lucia Aniello offered to help after spotting this Aug. 31 plea by writer Carolyn Lipka: “the thing about me is that i need one hour and twenty minutes of writer's assistant work in order to keep my union eligibility/health insurance during this pandemic. i'm a shockingly fast typer, i have multiple samples and room experience! and references! and donuts!”
The tweet produced 773 likes and 337 retweets, all that helped circulate the request, according to the entertainment news publication.
“I’m so grateful to everyone who tried to help me, who reached out with encouragement or even threw me a retweet or a like. It’s difficult to make your way in this industry when you aren’t born into connections, but having accessibility to showrunners and EPs on Twitter made this — and frankly, my entire career — possible,” Ms. Lipka told the publication.
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