A local woman who has been fighting for unemployment benefits for five months is finally getting help from the state after WPTV brought her story to light last week.
When chief investigator Jamie Ostroff first met Lena Hoti on Oct. 14, she was facing a crucial deadline with just two weeks before potentially losing the room she rents in Port St. Lucie.
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“I need to pay my rent, and if I don’t have this money, I’m going to end up on the street,” Hoti said. “I have about two weeks before I have to vacate.”
Hoti applied for reemployment benefits in June after losing her hotel housekeeping job. By mid-October, her case hadn’t even been adjudicated despite her weekly follow-ups with the state…