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Florida Tightens Unemployment Benefit Eligibility Requirements to Get People Back to Work Florida authorities are tightening eligibility requirements for people to collect unemployment benefits, in a bid to encourage people to take jobs as businesses in the Sunshine State struggle to hire badly needed workers. The Florida Department of Economic Opportunity (DEO), the state’s employment agency, on May 12 announced that as of June 1, unemployed Floridians will have to contact five employers a w...

About 15 years ago, Marion County’s healthy economy was fueled by mostly service industry jobs. When the national recession struck in 2008, the local unemployment rate soared into double digits, and at one point was among the Top 5 highest in the nation. Marion County officials, including state Rep. Stan McClain, who was a Marion County commissioner back in 2008, said the board vowed to diversify the local workforce before the next national recession, or other crisis, came to town. Flash fo...

People in Florida’s unemployment system will have to show they looked for work weekly after Memorial Day as state pushes to get workers back on job.

Department of Economic Opportunity Director Dane Eagle announced Wednesday that Florida will not extend its work search waiver for the unemployed. The waiver, implemented during the pandemic’s peak, allowed Floridians to collect unemployment benefits without proving they were searching for a job. The state will now encourage the unemployed to find work through a new Return to Work program that aims to connect Floridians to jobs and accelerate Florida’s economic rebound. Eagle said more tha...

Dane Eagle, executive director of the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity, said many people are taking advantage of $275 a week in Florida benefits and $300 in federal assistance. It's especially affecting the restaurant industry.

Floridians claiming unemployment benefits must search for jobs again to receive the benefit, starting May 29, Dane Eagle, Secretary of the Department of Economic Opportunity, the state agency in charge of the unemployment system said Wednesday.

Floridians will once again have to prove they’re looking for work to get unemployment benefits Jake Stofan, Tallahassee correspondent Updated:  Tags:  TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Out-of-work Floridians will soon once again have to show they’re looking for work to keep collecting unemployment checks. The Florida Department of Economic Opportunity, which oversees the state’s reemployment program and distributes unemployment benefits, said there are plenty of employers looking to hire. Altrua Gl...

Starting June 1, people filing for unemployment benefits will have to apply for five jobs a week

The state wants Floridians to get back to work. Florida Department of Economic Opportunity launched the “Return to work” initiative Wednesday, encouraging people who are collecting unemployment benefits to reenter the workforce. DEO Secretary Dane Eagle said some companies struggling to hire call this the “new pandemic.” When the pandemic began, the governor waived the requirement to fill out job searches on the unemployment website because jobs weren’t available. Now that jobs are co...

To get unemployment benefits, Floridians will again have to prove theyve looked for jobs By Jim Turner article TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - People in Florida’s unemployment system will have to show they looked for work on a weekly basis after Memorial Day, as the state pushes to get workers back on the job, particularly at restaurants. Also, a process is being set up for business owners to report unemployment claimants who don’t follow the "work search" rule, which will require people to apply for ...