02.04.21 ‘EDD has been failing California’: State lawmakers roll out proposals to speed up EDD claims, stop fraud
Excerpted from KGET (NBC)
By Ashley Zavala
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (KGET) — State lawmakers are trying to bring big changes to California’s Employment Development Department with some proposals they rolled out Thursday.
The proposals come as the agency has been slow to pay out unemployment benefits while struggling as a target for fraud.
“EDD has been failing California; the truth is the department has been failing for years,” said Assemblywoman Cottie Petrie-Norris, D-Laguna Beach.