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Benefits delay for furloughed accounts receivable employee finally over After 30 weeks, single mom gets benefits with the help of DEO, News 6 Updated:  Tags:  Josephine Otero said the long 30-week wait for her unemployment benefits forced her into a financial black hole with a lot of bills and no way to pay them. “Whatever I had in savings is basically gone,” the single mother said. “It’s very hard to support two children and try to survive.” [TRENDING: ] Otero was furloughed in ...

Ad However, in the middle of March 2020, the job opportunities stopped because of the COVID-19 pandemic. She said her only paycheck came during training to work at an early voting poll from Oct. 17, 2020 to Nov. 1, 2020 and that created a glitch in the DEO Connect system. “They keep saying they think I’m employed full time,” Nasset said. “Everything (on the DEO account) says ‘hold, hold, hold.’” Nasset said she refused to give up and turned to News 6 as her last hope. News 6 conta...

News 6 helps unemployed military veteran claim jobless benefits Former Marine waited 10 months for DEO to issue back unemployment funds Tags:  A retired Central Florida Marine has finally been able to claim a major portion of his state and federal benefits after News 6 and the Department of Economic Opportunity worked to update an unemployment account on hold for 10 months. Dave Brulotte served in the Marines as crew chief of an amphibious assault vehicle between 1988 and 1991. [TRENDING: A...

News 6 viewers donate $1,200 stimulus check to struggling family Loss of hours has Longwood family on financial brink Tags:  Since the pandemic Atira Moten has had her hours cut from her remote job with a medical records company to the point where her car has been repossessed and she soon could be evicted from her home. “I’m to the point now where I have to prioritize whether I’m going to feed my children or pay my bills,” she said. With two children, 11 and 3, Moten had hoped to r...

Taylor Swift is spreading the wealth this holiday season and helping some of those struggling to make ends meet during the coronavirus crisis.

Getting by. >> reporter: 5:30 a.m. lucy wilson gets her own kid ready before he heads off to teach two dozens more. 7:00 a.m., the school day begins. >> i used the play school and boss my little cousins around and play teacher. >> reporter: miss wilson tea teaching first grade where her starting salary is $35,000 a year. in the nine years teaching, she makes only a little more. >> can you live on a teachers salary? >> living at home with my parents, yes. not living at home with my parents, i hav...

Revenue including the windfall from the trump tax plan that the bank is earning. >> i read the lobbyists letter to mean that he wants to basically sit you down and explain to you how important jpmorganchase is to your congressional district, something that big business has been doing to members of congress for a couple of centuries now. >> yeah, thats going to be a hard pass. i dont need to be condescended to. i want to work on these problems. im really serious about the difficulties that famili...

>> yeah, thats going to be a hard pass. i dont need to be condescended to. i want to work on these problems. im really serious about the difficulties that families face in make ends meet. its what i studied before i came to congress and its what i think about every day. so i dont need to be pandered to. i dont need to be told that they have employees. i know that. i talk to my constituents. i know i have folks that work at jpmorganchase. i have a chase branch right next to the grocery store i go...

Spectrum of right, center left, center, we see a mixture where the categories dont capture whats going on on the ground, kitchen table issues. people are trying to figure out how theyre going to make their house note, make ends meet, pay for college. we know its not simply policies of the republican party. there have been democrats consistent and complicit in producing a reality that have made their kitchen table issues an issue. so they want something different. so that debate that you imagine,...

Other co-workers during this time. they still have to deal with all their stuff back here trying to get a new home to move to. trying to rebuild whatever they had. dealing with insurance claims. dealing with the government being shut down and not getting a paycheck. trying to reach out to financial institutions. these are all the things that just regular everyday americans that are public servants are having to deal with. >> charless wife is 8 1/2 months pregnant. he tells me shes had to go back...