UPDATE: California EDD, Bank of America At Odds Over Resolving Fraud Victims’ Claims
CBS SF Bay Area 1/13/2021 Syndicated Local – CBS San Francisco
SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX 5) Despite assurances from California’s Employment Development Department (EDD) and Bank of America that they are working together to fight fraud, emails between EDD and Bank of America obtained by KPIX 5 show the two are not on the same page.
“In the last week I’ve taken about 250 of these calls,” said an EDD call center employee who spoke to KPIX 5 after seeing our reports about the brazen hacks of EDD debit cards.
We exposed how hackers are stealing identities of EDD claimants on the dark web, duplicating their cards and security pins, then stealing thousands of dollars in cash at ATMs far away from where the victims live. “I am having claimants that have had their debit cards used in New York, Vegas,” said the EDD employee, who chose to remain anonymous.
The California Employment Development Department has been a titanic disaster of late and Gov. Gavin Newsom bears the onus of its failures, columnsit Dan Walters says.
“Rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic” is an overworked cliché, but it certainly applies to California’s Employment Development Department.
The name itself is a farce. There’s no evidence that EDD ever developed any jobs, other than employing thousands of bureaucrats to pay out unemployment insura