A HEARING MONDAY WILL ADDRESS THE SYSTEM’S FAILINGS AND WHAT COMES NEXT. WESH 2’S HADAS BROWN HAS THE DETAILS FROM THAT AUDIT TONIGHT. HADAS: THE MORE THAN 200-PAGE AUDIT MAKES IT CLEAR THAT FLORIDA’S ...

Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration is preparing to award a nine-figure state contract to the company responsible for Florida’s disastrous unemployment system. Deloitte Consulting beat out four other ...

BEGAN. >> THE CHIEF INSPECTOR GENERAL HAS FOUND A FEW PROBLEMS WITH THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE CONNECT SYSTEM AND SHE TOLD THE HOUSE GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS SUBCOMMITTEE TODAY THAT THE FINAL REPORT WILL ...

Florida’s unemployment agency is asking lawmakers for $5 million to hire 108 new employees to handle increasingly complex unemployment claims, part of an overall legislative request that could include ...

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 move has begun to revamp Florida’s less-than-decade-old online unemployment system, which couldn’t handle the influx of claims as businesses shut down last year because of the ...

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 ...

Florida is moving ahead with a plan to fix its antiquated unemployment website, an undertaking that would take two years and cost an estimated $73 million. But proposals to make other changes to the ...

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. The delays are costing many ...