Wilk Addresses EDD Fraud During State Senate Hearing
State Senator Scott Wilk, R-Santa Clarita, spoke during a hearing to discuss his new bipartisan bill on the concealing of social security numbers by the Employment Development Department (EDD).
In a Senate Labor Committee hearing on Monday, Wilk discussed a new bipartisan bill, introduced by Wilk and Melissa Hurtado, D-Sanger, regarding the restriction of the EDD’s continued use of social security numbers in outgoing mail.
“Little about the EDD is modern or functional,” Wilk said. “EDD has continued to place Californians at risk for identity theft.”
Senate Bill No. 58, introduced by Wilk and Hurtado, and co-authored by Assemblyman Lackey, R-Palmdale and Assemblywoman Suzzette Valladares, R-Santa Clarita, would amend Section 11019.7 of the Government Code so that the EDD would be prohibited from sending major types of outgoing mail containing users’ full social security information.