By Daniela Pardo and Hannah Poukish Sacramento PUBLISHED 11:57 AM PT Feb. 09, 2021 PUBLISHED 11:57 AM PST Feb. 09, 2021
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Since the pandemic began, California’s Unemployment Development Department has paid billions of dollars to fraudsters who’ve applied for and received unemployment benefits, while thousands of jobless Californians continue to wait for their applications to be processed.
Now, California lawmakers are coming together to help reform the state’s troubled unemployment agency.
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State legislators have introduced a series of bills to prevent future fraud and speed up the growing backlog of unemployment claims at the EDD
The proposed legislation would establish an oversight advisory board to keep EDD accoun