Florida’s unemployment website will be down for three days beginning Friday, the longest shutdown of the system so far as the state tries to catch up with payments for jobless Floridians.
The state Department of Economic Opportunity, which manages the program, said the shutdown is necessary to “process payments faster” on Florida’s CONNECT system.
“We know that not being able to access the system may cause uncertainty, but these updates are designed to expedite the process for payment,” DEO said in a statement.
A week ago, Gov. Ron DeSantis switched up leadership of the program, handing it to state Florida Department of Management Services Secretary Jonathan Satter and tasking him with doing “whatever it takes” to speed up the process of making payments.