LOCKED SINCE FEBRUARY 27. REPORTER: LOUNICE BROWN HAS JUST ABOUT DEALT WITH IT ALL IN THE PANDEMIC, FIRST, SHE GOT COVID. THEN IT TOOK WEEKS TO GET UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS THROUGH THE DEPARTMENT OF ...

The Florida Department of Economic Opportunity has launched a new, mobile-friendly website for people to apply for their unemployment benefits."Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, DEO is seeing historic ...

The Florida Department of Economic Opportunity said workers have processed 100,000 paper applications for unemployment benefits. 100,000 paper applications for unemployment benefits have been ...

Nearly 58,000 people were targeted in a data breach of Florida’s CONNECT website, the Florida Department of Economics has confirmed.The DEO said it learned of the data break on July 16 involving ...

Florida residents attempting to check on the status of their unemployment benefits application or payments have limited hours to do that because the Department of Economic Opportunity take the CONNECT ...

ORLANDO, Fla. — Floridians wondering if the state has finally processed their unemployment claim were greeted with disappointment Friday. A message posted on the Florida Department of Economic ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla — When many people trying to receive unemployment benefits go to claim their weeks, they are being asked to reapply for benefits, which is where this new glitch freezes them in their ...

Months of criticism over the Department of Economic Opportunity's CONNECT website has caused different agencies to point their fingers at others, all while many Floridians wait on their unemployment ...

Complaints are rolling in again about the state’s unemployment website. One person tweeted, “got bounced out and looped, no exaggeration, 50-plus times.” Another said, “get halfway done then kicks me ...

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 ...

Hundreds of thousands of people have been told that they are "ineligible" to receive unemployment benefits in Florida after waiting weeks for confirmation from the state's website which has struggled ...

Since mid-October, Panuccio has had to explain to state lawmakers what went wrong with the launch of CONNECT, a $63-million unemployment benefits website plagued with glitches that has prevented ...