ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – Lindsey Bates lost her job as a server with an Orlando IHOP in early March and like thousands of other unemployed workers in Florida and across the country her chase for unemployment benefits has become a never-ending cycle of delays and disappointment.
Bates said it took 60 days for her first state unemployment check to arrive and now that the 12-week benefit cycle is complete she has been waiting for the emergency pandemic funds to show up on her state-issued debit card.Her records show she has already received two payments from the PEUC but she told News 6 she received one payment on her debit card and nothing after that.“Getting the card company to contact the DEO is like pulling teeth,” she told News 6 Wednesday,”.