California makes change to pay unemployment benefits faster

Adam BeamThe Associated PressCalifornia Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration Thursday, July 22, announced a major change in how the state pays unemployment benefits, potentially unlocking payments for up to 100,000 people who have gone weeks or months without assistance.Getting unemployment benefits is a two-step process. First, state officials must decide if people are eligible. If they are, the state starts paying them. But those people must contact the state every two weeks to confirm they are still eligible to keep getting paid.Sometimes, state officials must investigate residents’ eligibility after they have been paid. When this happens, the state stops paying them until the investigation is complete. Before the pandemic, these investigations usually did not take too
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