I am ashamed to live in California

[SophieJean]

5. This is inexcusable,

and a complete clusterfuck, obviously. There are several other articles about this issue including one concerning an emergency audit of the EDD by CA lawmakers in September. Newsom created a task force to address the "EDD backlog," which was overwhelmed by the increase in unemployment requests, but that was on July 29. While many states have been having problems with unemployment claims, cutting people off from their benefits during a pandemic is pathetic, regardless of the incidence of fraudulent claims. There at least seems to be a significant amount of outrage, including from some CA lawmakers, so hopefully it will be resolved sooner than later.

There was a small bit of good news for Roxzan Macon from the 7 On Your Side posted article: "After much back and forth, we got EDD to at least send future payments to her via check - that $9,000 is still locked up."