https://www.siliconvalley.com/2023/12/05/edd-changes-unemployment-contractor-after-scams/

California has a new unemployment and disability payment contractor after the state’s multi-billion-dollar pandemic fraud panic.

The Employment Development Department hopes it will be the end of an era of brazen scams, which wreaked havoc for laid-off workers and fueled police busts involving stacks of ill-gotten debit cards issued at the department’s direction by then-contractor Bank of America.