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Last year, Eagle gave the end of the summer 2022 as the date when the streamlined system would be working. That’s right about now, meaning CONNECT has to get it right this time.
Unemployment insurance is funded by both federal and state payroll taxes. In most states, employers pay state and federal unemployment taxes if: (1) they paid wages to employees totaling $1,500 or more in any quarter of a calendar year, or (2) they had at least one employee during any day of a week for 20 or more weeks in a calendar year, regardless of whether those weeks were consecutive.
In the United States, there is a standard of 26 weeks of unemployment compensation, known as "regular unemployment insurance (UI) benefits".As of December 2020, the U.S. has three programs for extending unemployment benefits: [1] Emergency Unemployment Compensation (EUC), Extended Benefits (EB), and Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation (PEUC).
[42] [43] Since May 2022, Florida's unemployment rate has sat around two percent, below the national average. [ 28 ] [ 36 ] As a result of a significant increase in gasoline prices, on November 22, 2021, DeSantis announced that he would temporarily waive Florida's gasoline tax in the next legislative session, in 2022.
As Florida continues recovering from Hurricane Ian, first-time unemployment claims in the state are coming in at the highest numbers of the year. Ian boosts Florida’s jobless claims. State ...
As unemployment surged during the early weeks of the coronavirus outbreak in the U.S., Florida ranked at or near the bottom of all states in its speed of processing those claims, federal data shows.
Under Eagle, the state tightened requirements for workers to receive benefits. [34] In May 2021, DeSantis and Eagle also withdrew Florida from the federal Pandemic Unemployment Assistance program, which offered a $300 weekly increase to state unemployment benefits. [35]
South Florida’s tri-county region posted 2.6% jobless mark last month. Florida jobless rate stays at 2.7% in August. Miami metro area boasts state’s lowest unemployment