Florida's error-plagued unemployment website down until Monday morning
An error-riddled state website allowing Florida workers to file for unemployment is down until Monday, April 27 as the struggle to process those claims continues.
Applicants are redirected to a back-up site where they can still file.
Floridians can also apply for benefits via a paper application set up to help mitigate the website’s struggles. But those looking to use the online portal at the Department of Economic Opportunity’s (DEO) website were unable to do so as of Friday.
Department of Management Services Secretary Jonathan Satter, who was brought in last week to oversee the system, said the state will direct its resources over the weekend to getting more applications processed as the state maintains a massive backlog of benefit-seekers, much to the dismay of Florida Democrats.
“We needed all the processing power we could get, to process payments,” Satter said. “We have a number of large batch jobs that were ready. Rather than place a lot of drain on the system today and over the weekend, we said, ‘Let’s take it down. Let’s process as many payments as we can.’”
https://floridapolitics.com/archives/329766-unemployment-website-down-until-monday
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