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Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby

You can't even apply for Unemployment in Florida right now. Not even for legitimate reasons without the PEUC benefit. Their site is down. This has been a problem for a few years now, since they implemented their new "improved" system. Huge scandal 2 years ago, the accusation is that it was on purpose to keep people from applying at all.

There are thousands of legitimately unemployed people in Florida, who SHOULD be collecting unemployment, who can't even apply for it. And others who have applied for it, but their applications are "lost" in the system. They can't re-apply because the system sees that there's an application already in for them. But the application can't be processed. It can't be approved or rejected. It's just stuck in limbo. HUNDREDS of Floridians are affected in that particular way.

There are also those who have been rejected in error - people whose companies were closed down and therefore they were laid off, had earned enough income in the previous year to qualify to collect, but their application was rejected anyway. HUNDREDS of people in that situation.

There are also people who were approved, who should not have been approved. HUNDREDS of people who are collecting, who applied honestly, but their applications should have been rejected.

There are also people who were approved, yet haven't ever received any unemployment checks at all even though they qualify for them. HUNDREDS of people in that situation.

Don't any of you people watch anything other than fox news and breitbart? This is a pretty serious problem in Florida and it's been going on for years, and the pandemic situation has exacerbated it.

That was a good public service thing to point out the problems that Florida has with unemployment checks. Florida could be characterized as sort of a "slow-learner" among states. I wonder how the achievement test scores for Florida high school seniors would compare up against say Connecticut, New York, California, or even Nebraska? Just asking!