State Employment Development Department main offices at the State Capitol complex in Sacramento. A vast backlog of California unemployment claims is below 900,000 for the first time since government-ordered business shutdowns to combat the coronavirus began — but state officials may need months to free the bottleneck.
A vast backlog of California unemployment claims is below 900,000 for the first time since government-ordered business shutdowns to combat the coronavirus began — but state officials may need months to free the bottleneck.
The state Employment Department has whittled away a mammoth backlog of unemployment claims in California, but a staggering number of workers languish in EDD limbo waiting for the government agency to pay or resolve the jobless claims.
The current EDD backlog of jobless claims totals about 890,200, as of Nov. 4, the state agency reported this week.
The Nov. 4 backlog shrank by about 55,900 from the bottleneck of 946,100 unpaid or unresolved claims that were reported for Oct. 28, according to this news organization’s compilation of figures released through a special EDD dashboard to track the logjam of claims.
