Thank you for holding: Claiming unemployment can be ripe with hassles
by Michael C. Bender | March 29th, 2009
Post reporter Jeff Ostrowski spends some time with the Florida Agency for Workforce Innovation office in West Palm Beach and writes in a story published today that the “frustration is the fallout of Florida’s fast-deteriorating job market.”
It’s not just new applications that are swamping the phone lines. To keep their $300-a-week checks flowing, unemployed workers must complete a short questionnaire every two weeks, either by phone or online.
On Mondays and Tuesdays, getting through to the state’s call center or logging onto the state’s www.floridajobs.org site is especially difficult.
“Mondays and Tuesdays? Hopeless,” Abraham said. “The whole state of Florida is calling.”
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March 29th, 2009 at 12:27 pm
it seems like the state is ill equipped for the down fall we are now in if things do not change and soon their are going to be a lot of homelessness around when jobs become available to the public employers are going to be swamped so the wages are going to fall down the unfortunate part of this is the price of things are not following suite. Until the state of Florida figures out a way to balance these things out there will be no recovery from this present situation that we are in