'I'm sleeping in my car': US states fail to provide unemployment help amid pandemic

Nearly every state has failed to meet federal standards in getting benefits to 87% of recipients within three weeks amid Covid crisis

Eugene Williams of Daytona Beach, Florida, lost his job with a restaurant food distributor when the pandemic hit in March 2020, and had been receiving unemployment benefits without issue until June, when he accidentally entered return to work" in verifying his weekly benefits claim.

In doing so, Williams has been unable to restart his unemployment benefits for over 30 weeks, and repeated inquiries to the Florida department of employment opportunity have yet to resolve the issue.