Apply to selfemployed, part time, and gig workers, people like uber and lyft drivers who have been hoping for state benefits. Basically, if you lost her job because of the coronavirus pandemic, on a planet benefits will likely be available and they are retroactive to the date you lost your job. Not just the day that you file. That is a big victory for people who have held protest arrests over the last month after their income dried up. Benefits are only being offered to fulltime company employees. These new benefits are part of the federal cares act which was passed earlier this month. Here are some of the qualifications if you are trying to apply for these new benefits. You have to be unemployed, partially up employ, partially or unable to work as a direct result of the coronavirus. You can apply even if you dont have a robust work history during the last 18 months, like if youre selfemployed or independent contractor. You can also apply if you have collected all in a planet benefits
Have been tested. As the human toll continues to go up, Public Health officers are continuing to warn people, take the coronavirus seriously. And one of them has a very special insight. Marin countys doctor matt willis was sick with the coronavirus for three weeks. We have what his message is for everyone out there. Frank, we found matt willis at marin countys Emergency Operation center back at work fighting the virus that took him down hard. His days are a blur of meetings, calls and decisions, but doctor matt willis embraces all of it, after being knocked flat by covid19 last month. I realized i had really underestimated the power and unpredictability of this virus. Reporter he got sick a few days after appearing with other county health officers, declaring the first bay area wide shelter in place, unprecedented then and followed soon after by a stay order. So i am here on home quarantine as marin 39th confirmed case. Reporter at the time his illness seemed mild, cough and aches. But
Straight to the water. Thats when rescuers do we know if the people in the car survived. We havent received word about their conditions. I spoke to one person here to celebrate her birthday. She was sitting in the car and all of a sudden saw another car go around her at the santa cruz moous municipal wharf, through the railing in to the water. Plunged straight down. She said she was able to call 911. We spoke to police and fire on the scene. They havent commented officially yet. One officer said she believed two people may have been in the car. It happened down near the lifeguard headquarters. This lifeguards jumped in to help. One woman said she saw the driver trying to go around people and cars quickly before going in. I tried to pass twice on the right and ended up passing us on the left. Almost got in a headon collision, got behind us again and then drove past us, sped, lost control of the car and went over the side. Reporter in to the water . Yeah, in to the water. And then a girl
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Victims of EDD debit card fraud say Bank of America made it too difficult to recoup stolen money [San Francisco Chronicle]
Apr. 3 It was an unpleasant surprise for Jennifer Yick when the Bank of America debit card holding her unemployment benefits was declined by a store. The San Francisco resident knew she had more than $400 in the account.
She logged into the bank website and saw four hefty DoorDash charges even though she has never used the food delivery service.
“I felt sucker-punched,” she said. “They just drained it.”
Then she embarked on a lengthy quest “the tale of unending phone calls, hours on hold,” she said to contact Bank of America about the theft.
By Daniela Pardo and Hannah Poukish Sacramento PUBLISHED 11:57 AM PT Feb. 09, 2021 PUBLISHED 11:57 AM PST Feb. 09, 2021
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Since the pandemic began, California’s Unemployment Development Department has paid billions of dollars to fraudsters who’ve applied for and received unemployment benefits, while thousands of jobless Californians continue to wait for their applications to be processed.
Now, California lawmakers are coming together to help reform the state’s troubled unemployment agency.
What You Need To Know
State legislators have introduced a series of bills to prevent future fraud and speed up the growing backlog of unemployment claims at the EDD
The proposed legislation would establish an oversight advisory board to keep EDD accoun