https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/08/05/unemployment-woes-state-lawmakers-demand-edd-fix-coronavirus-backlog/

A majority of the California Legislature demanded Wednesday that the state government pay unemployed workers now rather than wait for the embattled Employment Development Department to figure out how to fix its broken jobless benefits system.

Jolted by disclosures that more than 1 million California workers may have to wait at least two months before receiving jobless benefits, 61 state lawmakers from both legislative houses called on Gov. Gavin Newsom to launch immediate fixes and sweeping long-term reforms of the EDD.