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The COVID-19 pandemic disproportionately influenced minoritized individuals, with significantly higher rates of infection and death. One reason for this higher rate is hypothesized to relate to occupational environments of older minoritized populations had going into the pandemic, which also make them more likely to experience disruption in employment due to factors such as illness, and consequently, more financial consequences of the pandemic than their white counterparts. The current project evaluates race and ethnicity differences in disruptions in employment among older workers during the pandemic, and the extent to which those disruptions were related to the inability to pay monthly bills such as rent/mortgage, utilities, medical bills, food, or debt-related payments. Using data drawn from the Health and Retirement Study, including a COVID-19 survey collected in September 2021, this study evaluates …