CA Edd review: PUA Unemployment benefits 1

Overpayment notices to unemployed seniors imposes debt and hardship to vulnerable adults over the age of 65 on limited Social Security income. Senior citizens in CA who were in fact employed prior to losing their job due to Covid-19, should not be subject to poverty and eviction simply for the fact they are unable to provide the same documentation as regular UI applicants. There is no information on the EDD claim form, nor on the web-site that states self-employed, gig workers, or independent contractors are ineligible for PUA benefits if their services were compensated by cash payments. The injustice to senior PUA applicants by using a loophole of work documentation after the fact to impose severe debt on unemployed elderly claimants should not be tolerated. Punishing it's own citizens who followed instructions and did nothing fraudulent in the worst pandemic and economic crisis this country has seen in over 100 years is incomprehensible. EDD should be held accountable and it's heads of the Department prosecuted to the full extent of the law for threatening financial hardship to elderly citizens which could result in eviction, bodily harm, or death. EDD heads of Department should be liable for 1a) any elderly claimant who became homeless and/or destitute as a result of a determination of overpayment of benefits that can be proven they were in fact eligible to receive 1b) any elderly claimant who was denied benefits if it can be proven they were in fact eligible to receive, and 1c) any elderly claimant who suffered bodily harm or death as a result of denial of benefits or a wrongful determination of overpayment of benefits they were in fact entitled to. EDD did not follow policy regulations to inform applicants that their benefit payments received were conditional and could be subject to a future overpayment determination. It should also be argued that claimants over the age of 65 should have been logically and reasonably presumed with special consideration to have been given 2a) A waiver of overpayment that will cause financial hardship and 2b) the presumption that any logical or reasonable head of Department, with the advanced knowledge that claimant is elderly, should have taken into account that claimant may not possess the same mental capacity to understand the appeal process or how to contest a determination by navigating the system and 2c) no trained personnel was provided to give assistance to elderly claimants over the age of 65 nor were enough employees staffed by EDD to be able to be reached by phone in order to assist claimants over the age of 65 in order to inform them of their legal rights and options.