ORLANDO, Fla. – Alexandra Castellanos has been unemployed since April 2020 but for some reason the state’s unemployment records had her back to work and on the payroll with a New Jersey mortgage company. “Get-a-Rate, Pay-a-Rate, I didn’t even know what it was,” she said. ”When I looked it was a company I never worked for or applied to.” The single mom lives with her daughter in Orlando and had been waiting for benefits for 16 weeks when she called News 6 for help. “It’s really frustrating.
It’s depressing,” she said. “I mean, there were days when I couldn’t sleep.” News 6 ran a check of the company and confirmed Get-A-Rate LLC is a mortgage company with headquarters in Hackensack, New Jersey.