DEBARY, Fla. – Shortly after April’s stay-at-home orders prompted Chris Cummings to temporarily close L’Amour.
L’Amour is his wedding and events company, the self-employed business owner filed an application seeking unemployment benefits.
Cummings later returned to Florida’s unemployment website to check on the application status and he discovered a big error. “It said my income was not sufficient to file for unemployment benefits,” Cummings told News 6. “[The website indicated] I made a whopping zero dollars for L’Amour.” The Florida Department of Economic Opportunity’s unemployment benefits website, called CONNECT, accurately displayed the income Cummings received from a part-time internship.
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