ORLANDO, Fla. – The names of more than 1,000 men and women who have been waiting for state unemployment benefits since March were hand delivered to the governor’s office in an office-style cardboard box Monday following the governor’s impromptu request to “see the names” of applicants who complained of not receiving jobless benefits.
Sen. Linda Stewart of Orlando was the first to collect names of constituents, gathering roughly 500 for the Department of Economic Opportunity. “If they are missing information, the DEO should be calling them and filling it out,” a fired up Stewart told News 6 Monday, “There’s people out there that are really not paid.” More than 200 News 6 viewers contacted the station via email by Monday evening complaining