> It feels like the design is to make it as hard as possible to keep track of what one is eligible to, it's designed to be painful and unreliable. This is an u

> It feels like the design is to make it as hard as possible to keep track of what one is eligible to, it's designed to be painful and unreliable. This is an understatement. Florida's unemployment system for example was designed intentionally to fail when too many people tried to file for benefits to prevent them from having to pay out. This of course blew up into a whole scandal during covid when a bunch of people were suddenly unemployed and all tried filing at the same time which is how it officially came out that the system was designed from the start to function like this. https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/08/06/899893368/gov-says-floridas-unemployment-system-was-designed-to-create-pointless-roadblock https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/0...