After the state’s unemployment system collapsed leaving hundreds of thousands of suddenly jobless Floridians waiting weeks to receive benefit payments, lawmakers from both parties called for a special session last spring to address the “unemployment fiasco.”

There was bipartisan urgency and consensus the system needed to be upgraded – as did the state’s $275 weekly unemployment payout and 12-week eligibility span, both the most meager in the nation.

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