Temporary jobs block months of DEO unemployment benefits for 2 single moms
Returned to work status never removed from state records
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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 (from DEO) saying, ‘Congratulations on returning to work,’” Warren said. “I thought, Are you kidding me?’”
Finding work to fit her children’s schedule has been a challenge for the Orlando resident.
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Some states carved out single-day poll workers from being denied unemployment benefits. Florida did not.
After losing her job at a Montessori school in Hollywood, Krista searched far and wide for another job as she collected unemployment benefits for the first time in her life.
And then in the lead up to the November elections, she took notice that elections supervisors from across the state were desperate for poll workers. Elderly residents, who tend to work the jobs, were opting not to do so because of the coronavirus pandemic.
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