Florida's unemployed struggle with system designed to fail

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'I'm homeless': Florida's unemployed struggle with system designed to fail
Governor Ron DeSantis admits the benefits process is intended to deter people as the coronavirus crisis wreaks havoc with lives

Michael Sainato
Published on
Tue 11 Aug 2020 05.30 EDT


(Guardian UK) Crystal Tucker of Polk county, Florida, has spent months trying to solve issues with her unemployment benefits since she was furloughed in March 2020 from her job in the admissions department at Legoland in the Orlando area.

Like millions of other people in Florida and across the country, Tucker is a victim of an unemployment system unable to cope with the record number of claims that have swept the country during the coronavirus pandemic. In Florida the situation is particularly catastrophic.

Tucker started to receive benefits, but she was deemed ineligible when she completed her weekly filings on 10 June because she resigned from her position as a claims supervisor at Walmart after 14 years. Tucker quit due to a flare-up of lupus, an autoimmune disease, just as her workloads increased due to job cuts in her department. She was worried about the impact a coronavirus infection could have on her already-compromised immune system.

“I am now homeless,” said Tucker. “I have no vehicle and have sold everything of value, so I would be able to pay for my doctor appointments, medications and dog food. I don’t know how much longer I can keep it together.”

Florida’s unemployment system has come under harsh scrutiny since the pandemic reached US shores and unemployment soared. .............(more)

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/11/florida-unemployment-coronavirus-benefits-system

[Wellstone ruled]

1. While Obama and Biden were

rebuilding our Economy,ALEC and it's helpers were destroying the Social Service Departments of dozens of Red States and States with Rethug Governors by selling them Electronic Systems to Administer Social Programs that were just over priced POS's.

Yup,here in Nevada we too have one of those POS systems running our Unemployment and Placement Departments. Forty million dollar nightmare which was hacked to the tune of a Billion . Mean While,thousands have not received a dime in compensation due to plain built in bad Code and Hardware failures .

[mitch96]

2. Yup, a legacy of that dipshit Scott. He is just an evil person...

In his mind if you ain't rich you aint shit...
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