https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/07/29/coronavirus-unemployment-governor-plans-edd-reforms-but-relief-is-months-away/

Gov. Gavin Newsom, alarmed by the state government’s ineptitude in promptly paying unemployment claims to jobless workers, announced a “strike team” Wednesday to address the problems — but also indicated that it could take months to catch up to a backlog of unpaid benefits amid the coronavirus.

The “strike team” of state officials is being set up to address a debacle at the EDD that has persisted — without solution — for more than four months since mid-March. That’s when unemployment claims spiked after state and local government agencies ushered in wide-ranging business shutdowns to combat the deadly bug.