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About 60 farm workers from across the state walked the hallways of the state capitol Tuesday.

They came to make lawmakers aware that many are out of work and unable to receive unemployment.

“In particular, a lot of our people are seasonal workers and other workers in other industries have laid off a lot of people,” farm worker Dirso Moreno said. ”The unemployment benefits are not always available to them because they don’t count the unemployment that last three months, most of the time. So they don’t qualify, they don’t have enough weeks to qualify for benefits.”

Lawmakers have been debating whether to change some requirements for receiving unemployment, but have balked at the cost, which is just over four hundred million dollars.