Unnight insurance. Ui, the earned benefit, seemed by covered employees, generally those who work for others and are not a part of the gig economy. Are you also going to hear pu or pua, pandemic unemploymentr o assistance. This is a temporary unemployment payments offered by the federal government to those who usually do not qualify for benefits, who are thinking in terms of business workers, gig business owners, i should say, gig workers in the selfemployed. Now, back to our edds lori leavy. Lori, i appreciate you joining us here today. I understand you had to rearrange your schedule to do so. Yeah, any chance to get out helpful information, i am all for. Thank you for a lot of claire identifications you just provided. Because there is so much confusion out there. It really does help to get that information. Excellent. Im glad. We are going to be taking, just so you know, we will be taking some of my questions and also questions from viewers who are watching right now when they send th
Week. But here in california, we have filed a more than 7 million claims for unemployment that happened since the pandemic began and paid out just last week alone 3. 7 billion in Unemployment Benefits and thats more than 3 billion more than the worst week of the last great recession. So as you can see, there is a massive demand for this type of until assistance. So is the volume that you are getting, you are having the process going down at all . You know, the volume continues to be quite high. We are still getting a couple hundred,000 claims each week. However, what we are able to to do is we are now able to expand our capacity. As you know when this hit, it was like an overnight perfect storm. Right. So it was hitting at a time of record low up employment. We have low staffing, low funding. Now we have more funding. We are in a mass expedited hiring effort, where we have hired or at least extended considerable job offers to more than 4,300 people to come on board and help us here at
First of all, update you on our hiring effort. You know, we were at record low unemployment in february, so we had low staff and low federal funding. Fast forward now, this historic demand for benefits and we are getting more increased federal funding, so we are now in the process of hiring 4,800 new staff to come help us with the unemployment and insurance demand that we are dealing with. Were doing that in an expedited fashion. Theres a great web page to give you the information about those positions that were filling, all aimed at trying to help us increase capacity as much as possible to deal with this historic load. Are you seeing any differences in the past week in terms of the claiming coming in as california starts to reopen and peopl are startg to go ckwo . Are you impact on your end yet . Well, we continue to see hundreds of thousands of new claims each week and well have some new numbers out again tomorrow as we do every thursday. And we have paid, the last week, more than 2