https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/08/03/coronavirus-unemployment-1-million-california-workers-edd-payment-trap/

About 1.13 million unemployed California workers are stuck in EDD payment limbo, including 889,000 workers that the state Employment Development Department says it can’t pay “at this time,” even if they have been out of work for months amid coronavirus-linked business shutdowns.

At a state legislative hearing last week, the EDD was blasted by lawmakers and members of the public for repeated failures in making payments to unemployed workers, who in many instances lost their jobs in business shutdowns ordered by state and local government agencies to combat the deadly bug.