Looks like his rent's due...so I'd be selling some of my furniture in the front yard if that desperate. I went thru a rough spot many years ago and did exactly that...sold anything that wasn't needed in my front yard and it worked!
The idea was to generate money...I figured if I wasn't willing to sell some of what I had then I wasn't that desperate to begin with.
That would go especially if I needed medication, as seems to be the case here.
The minute he went on unemployment they should have filed for Medicaid. That’s what it is there for and would have covered the meds.
In my opinion there is nothing wrong with using govt programs to get you through tough spots. That’s exactly what they were created for.