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Job seekers turn to employment centers as unemployment benefits run out

Written by Naples Mortgage Syndicated User on . Posted in Naples Florida Mortgage, Naples Mortgage.

FORT MYERS, Fla. – Career Source of Southwest Florida plans to help reacclimate thousands of people back into the workforce in the coming month. Federal unemployment benefits are set to run out at the end of June.  Until then people who continue to collect the $300 a week in federal funds must prove they’re looking for a job. In Southwest Florida alone, there are 20 thousand people who are still unemployed and many of them are expected to visit Career Source to find a job after more than a year of collecting unemployment. Mia Williams lost her job last March and she said...

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Job search requirement resumes for Florida unemployment claims

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FLORIDA – There are some big changes for people still collecting unemployment in Florida. For the last year since the pandemic, those collecting didn’t have to prove they were looking for work. In order to continue collecting unemployment those receiving benefits are going to have to work a little harder in fact they’ll have to prove that they are looking for a job and that means visiting places like Career Source which is expecting more people to start showing up and looking for work. Desperate employers hope the requirement will help fill some of their empty positions....

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Floridians to stop receiving federal unemployment in June

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The state of Florida is stopping federal unemployment next month, meaning those receiving the extra $300 a week or $1200 a month will see the checks stop coming. That will leave thousands relying on the $275 or less a week that the state offers. With just five weeks left before the funds expire, the Career Source of Southwest Florida is already preparing for an onslaught of people expected to begin looking for a job. Francis Suthered is among those getting an early start after contracting COVID-19 in December. “Finally they let me come back to work on January 17th and said I took too...

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Florida DEO to withdraw from federal unemployment program, ending $300 weekly payments

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The Florida Department of Economic Opportunity (DEO) will be withdrawing from the Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation program, ending the $300 weekly supplemental unemployment payments for claimants. The withdrawal is effective June 26, 2021. The DEO released a statement on Monday saying the decision to end its participation in the program came after April’s labor statistics showed that total private-sector employment increased by 18,800 jobs and more than 460,000 online job postings became available throughout the state. The decision is part of the DEO’s ‘Return to...

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