TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Legislation to fix Florida's beleaguered CONNECT unemployment system appears to be on its way. The Florida House unanimously approved a bill Wednesday afternoon overhauling the ...

After the Florida House approved a bill that would fix Florida's unemployment system on Wednesday, it sailed through the Senate Thursday. Now, it is just waiting on Gov. DeSantis' signature. Here is ...

(TNS) — When the pandemic hit last year, Florida’s unemployment system was in turmoil, with Floridians spending hours on hold with call centers and waiting weeks or months to receive benefits. Sixteen ...

Deloitte Consulting was among the vendors who sold Florida a $78 million unemployment compensation system that buckled and broke for many thousands of Floridians who tried to file claims after being ...

Llona Geiger is among the hundreds of thousands of Floridians thrown out of work by the coronavirus. Geiger retired in 2013, but continued to teach exercise classes at Tallahassee’s Senior Center on ...

TALLAHASSEE An inspector general probe into Florida’s failed unemployment system found that the system was never prepared to handle even a modest amount of jobless claims, much less the historic ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida's CONNECT unemployment system was not built to handle the flood of claims during the COVID-19 pandemic and needs $244 million over the next five years to fix the problems, ...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (CBS12) — Florida's unemployment system is seeing a spike in fraudulent unemployment assistance claims, a year after the state saw a deluge in applications during the first ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Unemployed Floridians are claiming the computer system used to claim their benefits is riddled with glitches as they try and prove to the Department of Economic Opportunity they ...

Florida’s CONNECT unemployment benefits system failed to connect to much of anything in the early days of the pandemic, leaving millions of recently laid-off Floridians in the cold. The company that ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — A state investigation is confirming nearly a year’s worth of Spectrum News reporting: that Florida’s unemployment system is not only plagued by widespread problems, but that ...