'A lot of our questions we've been posing are going unanswered.'
Total payouts have ranged from $21 million in Connecticut to $231 million in Pennsylvania, according to officials with the states' labor departments.
And the 67,000 Floridians who either received payments or had their applications processed were the lucky ones, said Sunday Phillips, a real estate agent in Fort Lauderdale. Phillips first applied for unemployment on April 6 and has yet to hear a peep about the status of her pending application. On Wednesday, though, Phillips got a bit of good news. The moratorium was extended until June 2, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced. Phillips was also able to update details on her unemployment application without the system crashing, she said.For many states, getting PUA up and running within the month after the CARES Act passed marked an accomplishment, even though it meant newly-unemployed Americans waited weeks without a paycheck.
Jennifer Majano helps an job seeker fill out an application at a drive up job fair for Allied Universal, May 6, 2020, in Gardena, Calif.
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