$2.659 billion paid to unemployed since mid-March, but about half million ruled ineligible, DeSantis says

Florida is nearly up to date in paying unemployed workers who are eligible for benefits, disbursing more than $2.6 billion to more than 975,000 people since mid-March, Gov. Ron DeSantis said in defense of the state’s overwhelmed unemployment system. But figures he cited at a news conference in Tallahassee on Tuesday show about a half million people who applied over the past two months of the …