https://www.siliconvalley.com/2021/02/18/edd-woes-pay-suspended-claims-crawls-economy-jobs-layoff-fraud/

The Employment Development Department is validating just a modest fraction every week of the 1.4 million unemployment claims that were abruptly suspended due to suspected fraud, California’s embattled labor agency revealed Thursday.

EDD officials issued repeated assurances during a news briefing on Thursday that the state agency was doing all it could to pay benefits swiftly to unemployed California workers who have filed legitimate jobless claims.