Sec. of Labor Says Admin Is Discussing Improving Unemployment Insurance Systems PUBLISHED 10:27 AM PT Apr. 06, 2021 PUBLISHED 10:27 AM PDT Apr. 06, 2021 SHARE WASHINGTON — The nation is seeing increased traffic in retail shops and restaurants, with the latest report showing 916,000 people have gone back to work since February. But in California, while rates have also improved, hundreds of thousands of people are still without a job. It doesn’t help that the unemployment systems are also backed up and mired in scandal, mostly attributed to antiquated systems and untrained personnel. California’s “antiquated” unemployment system has paid out anywhere between $11 and $30 billion worth of benefits that involve fraud.