MELBOURNE, Fla. – Nicole Finn, a single mother with 2 young children, is one of the first known Florida unemployment claimants to have her food stamps cut following a Department of Economic Opportunity mistake that found she was receiving state and federal benefits when in fact, she had never received any benefit payments.The Melbourne woman said she was furloughed from Land and Sea Inc.
on March 24. She filed for benefits and was deemed eligible.“I haven’t received a dime of money at all,” Finn said. ”Whoever they spoke to over the telephone at the unemployment office (DEO), said ‘yes she is eligible yes she filed.‘”News 6 reviewed her DEO Connect account and found Finn is eligible for more than $1,900 in state jobless benefits but the.