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Florida unemployment down to 4.8% after 9 months of job growth Data shows people getting back to work after COVID-19 pandemic Published:  Updated:  Tags:  In this file photo, Charles Perez wears a protective face mask and gloves as he waits on tables at the Morada Bay Beach Cafe in Islamorada. Floridas jobs numbers have improved for nine straight months, the state says. (Copyright 2020 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.) FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – In the latest sign of economic recove...

MORE COMPLAINTS South Florida resident Judith Phillpotts is among them. “It is very important, because I am a single paycheck and I have bills to pay,” Phillpotts said when asked about the benefits she was waiting on. Phillpotts said she called NBC 6 Responds when her unemployment benefits suddenly stopped being processed at the end of December. She told us she is still furloughed from her job in the travel industry, but her unemployment claim was halted due to a “Return to Work” error ...

The D.E.O. didn't give a time as to when the account issue will be fixed.

'Broward Days' is rforced by COVID-19 to retool as an all-virtual one-day event.

Florida’s failed unemployment system needs much more scrutiny | Editorial Too many lawmakers seem to have lost interest in determining how hundreds of thousands of Floridians were left in the lurch as the unfolding pandemic wiped out their jobs.   This article represents the opinion of the Tampa Bay Times Editorial Board. Published Mar. 12 Updated Mar. 12 State officials want to spend $244 million to overhaul Florida’s failed unemployment system, a staggering amount on top of the m...

Some Floridians say their unemployment claim is inaccurately on an "incarceration" hold It’s been a full year since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic and just weeks later people began having problems with the Department of Economic Opportunity. and last updated 2021-03-11 18:56:41-05 TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — It’s been a full year since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic and just weeks later people began having problems with the Departme...

Crooks are using 3-D technology to steal people’s unemployment benefits by printing fake IDs and trying to mask the crime using fake appearances. The State of Florida isn’t taking any chances on this one, and a man helping the state invented something that’s peeling away the hope of crooks to scam millions of dollars. Greg […]

An investigation into Florida’s unemployment website uncovered what frustrated laid-off workers already knew: “Countless people were affected by this system’s failure.”

A store announces its looming closure in Salt Lake City on Aug. 30, 2020. An economic recovery is starting to show signs of losing momentum as businesses close and companies announce big layoffs. Florida’s CONNECT unemployment benefits system failed to connect to much of anything in the early days of the pandemic, leaving millions of recently laid-off Floridians in the cold. The company that built it, Deloitte, has worked to distance itself from the system and is a defendant in a lawsuit agai...