Patience Wanes for Furloughed Floridians as Issues with Unemployment Claims Persist

Murphy’s office launched an online survey to try to get a broad view of the troubles people are having applying for benefits.

“As a federal government, who has given the state so much money for this program, we have oversight responsibility so we’re going to take that information we get from the survey and provide it as feedback to the governor and state leaders and tell them to do better on behalf of Floridians,” Murphy said.

really !!! they have to take a survey to ask what is wrong with the website ? what a load of horse manure ... and, the DEO Connect website is still down folks. 

Murphy’s office said between 2010 and 2020, the U.S. Department of Labor provided $1.6 billion to the State of Florida to administer its unemployment compensation program, in addition to another $60 million the state received through the CARES Act for administration efforts to handle the state level surge in applications for benefits.

WOW !!! I wonder where all that money went .. surely not into the unemployment website or program ... you can surely feed a lot of people with that $1.6 Billion 

So, where is that money ? in who's pocket can we find al that money ?

Costs for the call center contracts are beyond totals the state is spending to upgrade the website and other technology resources.

The spending also overshadows the original $66 million the state spent developing the system in 2014 under the guidance of then-Governor Rick Scott.

“We have over 1,000 people answering phones. I’ve been told about wait times — it’s improved dramatically. We’re getting a huge number of people through the Pega website,” DeSantis said Tuesday.

Has anybody got through to speak with a live person at the DEO? 

I CALL BULLS**T