Although Gov. Rick Scott and the GOP-led Legislature recently implemented the stingiest jobless benefits program nationwide, ironically the man who now heads the state agency responsible for administering these benefits, collected unemployment compensation during the period 2009-2011.
According to Florida Current:
Hunting Deutsch, a bank executive with 35 years of experience, lost his job during one of the most expensive bank failures of the Great Recession. While out of work he received unemployment compensation benefits from 2009 to 2011.
He now oversees the Department of Economic Opportunity, the state agency responsible for administering what critics call the stingiest jobless benefits system in the country.
Labor groups have been particularly critical of the recent changes to Florida’s unemployment benefits system, pointing out that it unfairly blocks eligible workers from receiving benefits.
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