EDD’s Loree Levy Takes Your Unemployment Benefit Questions

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🗓️ 10 July 2020

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Close to 2 million unemployment claims filed since the shelter in place orders were issued have not yet been paid out, according to a San Jose Mercury News analysis. And while a new report from the U.S. Labor Department finds first-time jobless claims by Californians have dropped for two consecutive weeks, the continued economic shut-down could cause more workers to lose jobs. The state unemployment agency says it is updating technology and hiring thousands of staff to deal with the deluge of claims. Loree Levy of the California Employment Development Department joins us to answer your questions about the backlog and how to file claims. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:26.4	Nearly 2 million unemployment claims have yet to be paid
1:29.5	by California since stay-at-home orders took effect. That's according to a new analysis by the
1:34.2	Mercury News. And that's despite efforts to increase staff capacity at the state's Employment Development
1:39.9	Department, which has processed more than 7 million unemployment claims in the last four months.
1:45.7	We talk with EDD's Lori Levy about the backlog and take your questions about filing claims
1:51.9	and getting paid. Join us.
2:13.6	Thank you. This is Forum from KQBD. I'm Mina Kim. California's Employment Development Department has faced an avalanche of unemployment claims since the state's stay-at-home orders took effect.
2:21.6	And the department has struggled to keep up. A report this week from the Mercury News finds a backlog of nearly 2 million yet to be paid claims, including from people who filed back in March.
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