Pregnant GF Plant Shutdown Today- Now Unemployed

Hello everybody. My gf is 6 mos pregnant and her entire plant shut down. Today was her last day.

She worked there for the last 11 years, since she graduated high school.

Now I’m freaking out about insurance coverage and unemployment, but mainly insurance for our baby.

My question is has anybody ever had a plan like MediCal or Medicaid (or something similar) while pregnant? If so how did you go about it? Was it good insurance? Was it hard to get? What if her partner (me) makes really good money- will that affect her eligibility? We’re filing online right now but are trying to be careful to not lie about anything, but also getting as much in benefits as possible…say for example my Gross income for 2022 was 80k. Is that going to affect her? I don’t see why it would, since she’s only filing for herself…

She was making very good money, so she’s going to be getting 450 a week through unemployment, which sucks because that’s half of what her take home was. If she were to continue with COBRA, that would be 570 bucks a month- almost half of her monthly UI benefits- that’s insane to me.

The only other option is to add her to my health plan through work, but we would have to be married for that.

Any advice, tips, feedback is appreciated. If you have any insight on how to maximize unemployment benefits beyond the max 450 for California, that would be great too. (450 a week for a laid off pregnant women is crazy to me)

Thank you..