New EDD Audit Details Mismanagement, Billions in Fraud

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🗓️ 29 January 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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In a report released Thursday, the California state auditor finds the Employment Development Department (EDD) has failed to fix a fraud problem that the agency itself admitted could reach $30 billion. And another audit earlier this week found that inefficiency at the EDD continues to result in delays to benefits, and that the department has failed to correct the ongoing issues. We talk with EDD spokesperson Loree Levy about the agency’s fraud problem and its delays and missteps in processing legitimate claims. And we’ll take your unemployment benefits questions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:51.5	A damning new state audit released yesterday of the ongoing fraud problem
0:55.2	at the California Employment Development Department found numerous incidents of fraud, the bulk of which
1:00.5	could have been prevented, and that have already cost the state billions and counting. Among the breaches,
1:06.1	crime rings and prisoners who filed fraudulent claims for benefits that EDD paid to the tune of at least
1:11.7	$11 billion. A separate audit earlier in the week analyzed how various missteps and lack of preparation
1:17.6	at the agency have resulted in continued bottlenecks and left millions of Californians without benefits.
1:24.2	Agency spokesperson Lori Levy will join us to respond to the audits and to take your
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