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Florida begins daily unemployment updates

April 20, 2020 - The Florida Department of Economic Opportunity now is providing daily updates on the reemployment assistance program in response to Covid-19. The program came under sharp criticism as its system was overwhelmed with claims initially. The state today rolled out a new dashboard that will be updated daily to reflect the total number of unemployment claims submitted, verified, processed, and paid. Between March 15 and April 19, there were 1.53 million total claims submitted, of which 652,191 were confirmed unique claims. About 99.6 percent of those unique claims were verified, and just under 25 percent of those — 162,039 claims — have been processed. Almost $60 million has been paid to 40,193 claimants. The State Reemployment Assistance Claims Dashboard is available here

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