Gov. Ron DeSantis announced an executive order Thursday waiving the provision that people have to recertify that they are unemployed every two weeks, saying that is one of the bureaucratic hurdles that have hampered the state’s response time during the coronavirus pandemic.
Thousands of people continued to line up on Thursday at temporary food distribution sites in South Florida during the coronavirus pandemic.
Gov. Ron DeSantis said Wednesday he is forming a task force to consider reopening businesses before there is a vaccine for COVID-19, the highly contagious respiratory illness that is to blame for killing nearly 600 people in Florida and infecting at least 632,000 people in the U.S.
Trump Miami Resorts Management notified state and local authorities hundreds of workers at the Doral property will be applying for unemployment insurance benefits.
Since Florida's online applications for re-employment assistance had such problems, many people have decided to get a paper application and just send it in. And that's fine, too.
Gov. Ron DeSantis said Monday the system to help workers who have lost their jobs because of the coronavirus pandemic can now manage 120,000 simultaneous connections.
Florida jobless claims have tripled to 227,000 amid the coronavirus pandemic, and many people can't even get through to the state’s Department of Economic Opportunity.
In addition to dealing with the fear of being infected by the new coronavirus, many South Floridians are standing alone with the financial burden that comes with the shut down that is meant to save lives.
