Unemployed Californians to get an extra $600 in weekly benefits starting Sunday
Californians struggling to find work will receive an extra $600 in weekly unemployment benefits from a federal stimulus package starting Sunday, Gov. Gavin Newsom said, as a deluge of 2.3 million new claims in the last month has the state struggling to get payments to those who have just lost their jobs.
“That’s tremendously significant,” said state Sen. Jerry Hill , who chairs the Senate labor committee, of the larger payments. “That will make the difference for people — whether they can make it or not in this state.” “I called dozens of times. I never got through,” said Muscarnero, who has been unable to untangle the red tape involving his claim for jobless benefits. “It is the most frustrating and punitive process.”AdvertisementFernando, a resident of downtown Los Angeles, struggled to file a claim after he lost his sales job with a mobile phone company. He said he called EDD more than 90 times before he finally got a person on the phone who helped him process his claim.
Assemblyman Jim Patterson wrote to Newsom on Thursday to ask that EDD phone hours be extended to 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on weekdays and that additional hours be provided on Saturday. He noted that some of his constituents have said they have had to wait on the phone for 2½ hours, and that his own staff has tried to get through and had to wait 39 minutes or more.
Once the extra $600 from the federal stimulus package runs out, another shortcoming of California’s system will be more apparent— benefit amounts have not kept up with inflation as they do in other states. “It’s gotten a lot worse,” Emsellem said. “The political dynamic is that employers have pushed back on any kind of financial reform.”
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