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Surgery leaves Rollins College employee without work or unemployment benefits
DEO account under review for 3 months because of ID verification delay
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Surgery leaves Rollins College employee without work or unemployment benefits
Kelly Salter’s decision to undergo knee replacement surgery was supposed to coincide with a scheduled layoff from her kitchen supervisor job at Rollins College.
“I’ll be laid-up since I’m having knee surgery,” Salter told News 6 a few days before the procedure. “I won’t be able to go back to work.”
Lack of summer school activities on the Winter Park campus meant the Mother’s Day furlough would leave her without work for most of the summer.
Unemployed software analyst says Florida unemployment department provides ‘no answers’
62-year old tax analyst waiting 6-weeks for $ 2,000 in benefits
Unemployed software analyst says Florida unemployment department provides ‘no answers’
Christopher Fonde, of Sarasota, never imagined a software program designed to help people collect unemployment benefits would leave him without a dime six weeks after he filed for benefits with the Department of Economic Opportunity.
The 62-year-old software analyst lost his full-time job with Jackson Hewitt last year because of COVID-19.
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He told News 6 the state unemployment system is lacking real communication options more than a year after the heavy demand for unemployment assistance began during the pandemic.
Florida unemployment system troubles keep frustrations high
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ORLANDO, Fla. In the latest saga of Florida’s problem-plagued unemployment system, frustrated Floridians say the CONNECT program is continuing to keep them locked out.
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CONNECT program locking out frustrated Floridians, viewers report, keeping them from benefits
State blames high volume of traffic as potential cause
Not clear what Florida Dept. of Economic Opportunity is doing to fix the problem
“It’s been very difficult, I’ve been struggling the last month,” LaKeyshia Palmer said.
With more than 13 years’ experience in medical bill and coding, LaKeyshia Palmer was laid off in March.