{"id":2745,"date":"2020-12-20T10:39:49","date_gmt":"2020-12-20T18:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightscenter.org\/?p=2745"},"modified":"2023-03-28T11:12:58","modified_gmt":"2023-03-28T18:12:58","slug":"edd-announces-suspected-fraud-freeze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightscenter.org\/es\/news\/edd-announces-suspected-fraud-freeze\/","title":{"rendered":"EDD Anuncia Congelamiento por \u201cSospecha de Fraude\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">EDD this month announced that it would be freezing over 35,000 Bank of America debit cards due to suspected fraud. This announcement comes at a time when workers are struggling to keep up with their mounting bills.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">CWR will be advocating for the freeze to end as soon as possible and make sure that any claimant who is under investigation is still able to access the funds until the investigation is complete.\u00a0 As we had mentioned in our letter to the Assembly Subcommittee 4 in October of last year, we agreed with the EDD Strike Team\u2019s finding that \u201c[t]here has developed a culture at EDD of allowing fear of fraud to trump all other considerations.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The freezing of accounts of claimants who already navigated through the difficult process of accessing benefits is unnecessary in EDD\u2019s combating actual fraud. EDD already has a process\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in place to inform claimants of potential overpayments of benefits and did not need to confiscate\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">benefits already paid to claimants through this new process.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Claimants do not know why their accounts were frozen or how EDD made the determination that the identity verification information provided at the time of application needed to be re-verified. Many of our clients live paycheck to paycheck and depend on these benefits to pay for essentials like food and housing.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Being unable to access benefits for even a day can mean the difference between eating or\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">continuing to have a place to live. Taking away access to these benefits they were depending on, without even a warning or notice, is unconscionable. EDD\u2019s implementation of this new protocol is antithetical to the recommendations of the Strike Team report and should be stopped immediately.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">See below article for full details.\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/news\/edd-coronavirus-fraud-accounts-frozen-help\/2481141\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/news\/edd-coronavirus-fraud-accounts-frozen-help\/2481141\/<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EDD this month announced that it would be freezing over 35,000 Bank of America debit cards due to suspected fraud. This announcement comes at a time when workers are struggling to keep up with their mounting bills.\u00a0 CWR will be advocating for the freeze to end as soon as possible and make sure that any [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":2749,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,23,36],"tags":[28,27],"class_list":["post-2745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-news","category-unemployment-insurance","tag-unemployment-insurance","tag-updates"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>EDD Announces \u201cSuspected Fraud\u201d Freeze | Center for Workers&#039; Rights<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rightscenter.org\/es\/news\/edd-announces-suspected-fraud-freeze\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_ES\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"EDD Announces \u201cSuspected Fraud\u201d Freeze | Center for Workers&#039; Rights\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"EDD this month announced that it would be freezing over 35,000 Bank of America debit cards due to suspected fraud. 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