Thank you very much for clearing that. According to the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee, California estimated it sent $800 million in pandemic unemployment benefits to the 45,000 prisoners. Improper payments, prisoners, scammers and international gangs are part of the reason California has a federal unemployment insurance loan balance to the federal government of $18.3 billion. If it's not going to be paid, then guess what happened? Employers have to pay much higher rate. Some estimates show California employment Development Department distributed approximately 30 billion, as I just mentioned, during the pandemic. (03:42–03:57)
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