https://www.siliconvalley.com/2021/02/03/edd-woes-lawmakers-blast-agency-blunders-fraud-layoff-economy-jobs/ > State lawmakers grilled top officials with the embattled Employment Development Department during a tense legislative hearing on Wednesday seeking solutions to the EDD’s massive failures and blunders in paying jobless workers. > An oversight hearing of the Joint Legislative Audit Committee and the Assembly Insurance Committee undertook a wide-ranging review of the EDD’s broken call center, glitch-hobbled computer system, a mammoth backlog of unemployment payments, failures to pay legitimate claims for unemployed workers, and massive fraud problems.