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Charlie Crist implores state to tap tech community for unemployment benefit mobile app
The app would meet benefits-seekers where they are, Crist said.
The app would meet benefits-seekers where they are, Crist said.
Florida has some of the lowest benefits in the nation.
Floridians have struggled with an unemployment system riddled with glitches and uncertainty.
Claimants report waiting on hold for hours-long stretches.
Push to backdate benefits for fired workers.
The state has added servers to keep the drowning unemployment website afloat.
History can remember DeSantis as the man who did nothing or a savior who acted.
Applications are now available on the DEO's website in English, Spanish and Creole.
Fried, GOP continue to squabble.
Democrats fire away at failed unemployment claims system.
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