Frustration mounts as unemployment website crashes during COVID-19
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – As layoffs accelerate in face of coronavirus, U.S. unemployment claims hit 6.6 million -- another record high -- according to numbers released Thursday by the Labor Department.
The consequences of state officials failing to fix Florida’s unemployment website are being felt by possibly hundreds of thousands of taxpayers in the wake of an unprecedented wave of unemployment claims.
Due to coronavirus-related job losses, more people than ever are filing for unemployment benefits. The State Department of Labor will release new numbers today and is expected to break the record.
A Reuters survey estimates 3.5 million claims had been filed. Goldman Sachs released a larger estimate, expecting 5.5 million claims.
The true number could be even larger because not everyone who wants to file, has been able to. The Tampa Bay Times reported if the state can’t fix the website hundreds of thousands of Floridians thrown out of work could, at the least, be forced to wait weeks for unemployment relief.
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