TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Gov. Ron DeSantis held a coronavirus roundtable discussion in Tallahassee Monday morning, at which time he addressed the state’s heavily criticized unemployment system.
The governor said the system should now be able to handle the crush of applicants it is receiving as workers lose their jobs because of the coronavirus outbreak.
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He said the computer system’s capacity has been increased to handle 120,000 simultaneous connections, about double the peak usage in recent weeks.
More than 520,000 Floridians have applied for unemployment since March 15, compared to 326,000 in all of last year. State statistics show that almost 13,000 people have been diagnosed with the disease and 235 have died since the outbreak began.
Those attending Monday’s meeting included Department of Economic Opportunity Executive Director Ken Lawson, Department of Management Services Secretary Jonathan Satter and Department of Revenue Executive Director Jim Zingale.
See the full roundtable below: