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When 63-year-old Eve met Antonio Sabato Jr. on the Plenty of Fish dating website three years ago she had no idea the popular actor’s photographs had been stolen by a team of international thieves and imposters to convince her to work as a so called “money mule.”

WKMG-TV finalist for National Association of Broadcasters Service to America Award for 4th consecutive year News 6, ClickOrlando.com recognized for Make Ends Meet initiative Published:  Tags:  (Make Ends Meet) (Copyright 2020 by WKMG ClickOrlando - All rights reserved.) ORLANDO, Fla. – WKMG-TV News 6 and ClickOrlando.com have been committed to helping Floridians make ends meet since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, which has put a financial strain on countless Americans, particularly ...

‘Incarceration status’ leaves single mom without unemployment benefits for 7 weeks DEO works with News 6 to correct Connect account issue Tags:  BAY COUNTY, Fla. – Victoria Thomas is the first to admit she was driving on a suspended driver license in 2018 but she cannot explain why that event prompted the Department of Economic Opportunity to suspend her state unemployment benefits. “They said that I had to prove that I wasn’t in jail as of the moment,” the frustrated single mom to...

Unemployed commercial painter receives Florida unemployment benefits one year after filing 26-year-old single father waiting on $11,000 in unemployment payments Tags:  Ray Dumont, 26, had been waiting a year for $11,000 in unemployment benefits he applied for but was never able to collect from the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity. Both he and his mother, Michelle, work as independent house painters in Panama City Beach but last March, the coronavirus pandemic brought everything to a ...

Return to work mistake stops single mom’s unemployment benefits for 16 weeks News 6, DEO work to get $6,200 released Tags:  ORLANDO, Fla. – Alexandra Castellanos has been unemployed since April 2020 but for some reason the state’s unemployment records had her back to work and on the payroll with a New Jersey mortgage company. “Get-a-Rate, Pay-a-Rate, I didn’t even know what it was,” she said. ”When I looked it was a company I never worked for or applied to.” [TRENDING: Ad The ...

Department of Economic Opportunity Director Dane Eagle presented an aggressive blueprint to revamp the struggling Connect unemployment system on Monday with a proposed expense sheet of $73.3 million over the next two fiscal years.

The findings of a three-month analysis of the Department of Economic Opportunity’s aging Connect system is scheduled to be presented Monday in Tallahassee to the state Senate Select Committee on Pandemic Preparedness and Response.

Temporary jobs block months of DEO unemployment benefits for 2 single moms Returned to work status never removed from state records Updated:  Tags:  ORLANDO, Fla. – Alicia Warren and Alexandra Marshall blame the Department of Economic Opportunity for leaving their families without thousands of dollars in unemployment benefits. Warren, a single mother of three, told News 6 she earned about $184 at a temporary job with Manpower USA only to lose the job after a week. “I just got a letter (...

Retired medical supervisor one of millions still waiting for 2019 tax refund IRS: 6.7 million tax returns are in the ‘processing pipeline’ Updated:  Tags:  Karen Pickelsimer has been waiting since Feb. 20, 2020 for last year’s income tax refund that includes the $3,394 she is owed. “I’ve never heard of anybody not getting their income tax back in 11-months,” Pickelsimer said. “This is the first time I’ve encountered such grief!” The retired medical supervisor sent an email ...

Department of Economic Opportunity asked an older woman to return $3,300 in unemployment benefits.