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 ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — The Florida Department of Economic Opportunity said Tuesday its CONNECT reemployment website is suffering issues. Users who try to access the site are greeted with the message: ...

In a surprise move, Florida's Department of Economic Opportunity announced Wednesday that it is hiring another company to assist with the floundering $63-million unemployment benefits website. That ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — If you're trying to reach Florida's online reemployment assistance system Thursday morning, you might be out of luck The Florida Department of Economic Opportunity said in a tweet ...

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 ...

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 ...