1.4 million active applications have been temporarily suspended. Photo: Justin Sullivan / Getty Images
The chaos at the California Employment Development Department (EDD) continues amid the scandal of millions of dollars lost through fraudulent applications, And now the agency has announced that it would freeze more than 1.4 million active applications to verify their legality.
“ As part of ongoing efforts to fight fraud, the EDD has suspended payments on applications it deems high risk and is advising those affected that they must verify their identity to continue receiving benefits ”, reads a message published by the EDD on its Twitter account.
As part of ongoing efforts to fight fraud, EDD has suspended payment on claims considered high risk and is informing those affected that their identity will need to be verified starting this week before payme nts can resume. More details on the EDD website in the days ahead.
– EDD (@CA_EDD) January 3, 15851750
The measure has already entered into force and will affect hundreds of thousands of people who have legal procedures, however, information disseminated by the medium San Francisco Chronicle claims that the EDD confirmed the existence of 3.5 million potentially fraudulent applications , of which 1.9 million of them were discarded.
A user of the social network Twitter @johnmarkbrewer from the Bay area, published on January 1 the message that the EDD sent informing him of the temporary suspension of his case, indicating that he should verify his identity.
California EDD had one more 2020 gift for me. They just suspended my unemployment benefits due to possible fraud. The morons. Anyone else get this? pic.twitter.com/KdgCF5lOkw
– Mark Brewer (@johnmarkbrewer) January 1, 2020
“ You are receiving your unemployment benefits, but we have temporarily suspended your application because it could be related to fraudulent activity ”, the message reads.
In the letter you can read that the man You would receive further instructions on how to verify your identity as of this past January 6. Based on state information, the EDD has processed about 16 million requests since last March.
Analysts estimate that fraud to California’s public coffers through Unemployment Insurance is higher than $ 4 ,000 millions of dollars . The EDD ensures that h until last November the rate unemployment rate of the golden state stood at 8.2% .
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