Florida unemployment update

As far as the state unemployment situation, Gov. DeSantis said the website to apply for assistance was once again taken down from Friday-Sunday to play catchup on existing applications. DeSantis said that the weekend efforts allowed for processing 166,609 new claimants and paid out another $450 million.

When asked about reports that some people have been waiting weeks in the queue to be paid, DeSantis said the weekend work has been progress he likes seeing and “I would just tell people check the bank as the day goes on.”

To date, the state jobs dashboard says it has confirmed 1,346,177 unique claims, having processed 1,036,845 of those claims, or 77%, paying out more than $1.5 billion.