Hey guys, it's Ginny Silver.
Now talk to those of you in the state of California who are
awaiting a PEUC extension.
If you are a UI or PEUC claim, or you reach the end of your
fed ed claim you're within your benefit year and you're at
a zero dollar balance.
You most likely have been awaiting the PEUC extension to be
applied to your claim.
Now, the American Rescue Plan Act granted an additional 29
week extension for PEUC up until claim week ending September
fourth.
Now the PEUC extension is broken down into three different
tiers. The first tier is called PEUC, and it is 13 weeks long.
The second tier is 11 weeks long and it is referred to as
either X or Tier two.
The third phase of PEUC extension is called PEUY or Tier two
Augmentation, and it is 29 weeks long.
You can collect the PEUC extensions all phases of them up
until claim week ending September four th, at which point
in time the program ends due to the stimulus bill.
For those of you that have reached the end of your benefit.
Here, the Edd does state that you must file a new claim when
you reach the end of your benefit year, but for those of
you that are within your benefit year that are at a zero
dollar balance and that are awaiting this new extension to
be applied to your claims.
And the Edd originally stated that they would complete the
rollout of applying these extensions to your claims by April
30th.
They then followed up with an additional press release, changing
this extension deadline and moving it up, saying that they
were ahead of schedule and that they would complete the process
of applying PEUC extensions to claims with the ability to
certify April 17, while April 17 came and went.
And Unfortunately, many of you are left without receiving
the PEUC extension.
While many of my subscribers reported that, Yes, they were
awarded the next phase of their PEC extension, an overwhelming
amount have also reported back to me that they have not been
extended, that they are within their benefit year, that they
don't have any additional holds on their accounts, such as
ID, verification, etc.
And they've been out of zero balance for quite some time.
While the Edd has failed a number of individuals to receive
the PEUC extension automatically.
When the April 17th deadline came and went, the Edd did
not address this issue anywhere.
They did not issue a statement saying that they had completed
the rollout of the PEUC extension being applied, that claims
they did not address it on Twitter.
They did not address it in a Press release.
Now, yesterday I noticed two very strange things.
Number one, yesterday was the EDD's regular date that they
release press releases every Thursday.
The Edd issues out a Press release.
Strange thing is that the Edd did not release a Press release
yesterday. They did not address in any form that they have
surpassed this 4/17 date for applying the PEUC extension.
Now they did not issue a Press release yesterday and I was
hoping for a Press release to give us more answers on if
they were still continuing to issue these if there was some
sort of a delay or if there's a new date to expect them by.
Unfortunately, the Edd did not issue a Press release.
Now the other strange thing is that the Edd has changed their
website in the area where they previously listed that PEUC
claims would be extended with the ability to certify by 4/17.
They have removed that piece from their website.
Well, yesterday I was asked to do an interview with KTVUs
Tom Baker.
I conducted the interview over Zoom, and then at the end
I decided that I would ask him my questions for the Edd and
see if he would be willing to help me obtain more information
because as someone who is a random person on the Internet
creating YouTube videos, I don't have as much access to getting
information from the Edd as news reporter would.
Now, I am so thankful to Tom Vicar for reaching out to the
Edd on my behalf because he did get a reply.
He got a reply from the deputy Director him to reach out
and follow up on the EDD's promise date of awarding PEUC extensions
by 4/17 States.
The PEUC rollout was completed ahead of schedule.
Please see the update we provided in last week's news release.
Whether or not someone can continue on or be moved to federal
extension benefits, including a PEUC claim.
All depends on where someone is on their claim and if they
continue to be unemployed or working reduced hours during
the pandemic.
It also depends on whether or not someone has come up to
the end of their benefit year on their initial claim.
This particular web page on that has received more than 3,000,000
hits so far because the information is so important to those
who started a claim a year ago and continue to experience
issues on their claim.
Thanks for helping us share out these valuable resources
to your viewers.
Now the press release that she references in this email was
she States that they announced that they completed rolling
out PEUC extensions.
I'm going to show to you.
The press release contains additional information, but I'm
going to show you directly the part that pertains to the
American Rescue Plan Act section.
The state that the Department has continued to pay an average
of nearly 10,000,000 claims a week this year and has paid
over 24,000,000,000 in benefits this year.
The Federal American Rescue Plan took effect on March 14
th over the month since Edd has paid a total of 2.7 billion
in extended federal benefits for millions of Californians
under the federal programs extended by the American recipe.
This includes PUA, PEUC and PAC, which is the 300 dollars boost also
known as FPUC.
The Department has continued to meet and move faster on implementation
targets for the American Rescue Plan, including ensuring
all 1.2 million collecting on an existing Pua claim have
been able to certify and receive benefits if eligible since
last month faster than the April 10th target.
Californians on regular state UI or Fed
Ed have continued to receive the additional 300 dollars federal
payment without interruption since the federal program launched.
It does not state in that press release that they have completed
the PEUC extension.
It States that they completed extending Pua claims.
The only thing it States about PEUC in terms of completing
anything is that PEC with a remaining balance within their
benefit year, we're able to still collect.
It does not mention an end date being reached for applying
PEUC extensions.
So essentially this reply back to the deputy Director is
insufficient. It's pointing to a Press release that doesn't
address the actual process.
The problem here is that claimants who are within their benefit
year or at a zero dollar balance who have been waiting weeks
some months to receive the PEUC extension have not received
it automatically.
If these claimants are all in good standing with their accounts,
their accounts are not expired.
They're not subject to an ID verification or anything else.
Those claimants have not been awarded the PEUC extension.
Well, the press release she directed to does not address
this issue either.
So what should you do moving forward if you are someone who
is still awaiting this extension?
Well, number one, make sure that you are within your benefit
year. If your benefit year has ended PEUC, UI, fed ed and you
were 12 months after the start of your claim start date.
As noted in UI online, then you must file a new claim.
But if you're within your benefit year and you're simply
waiting for the Edd to apply the extension because the Edd
is not addressing that there is any sort of a delay in awarding
these extensions and in fact, a replying that they completed
it ahead of schedule.
I do want to urge you guys to call into customer service
and try to get this fixed on your claim.
Number one, Fill out a UI online contact Us Form, number two,
Fill out an Ask Edd contact form.
Doing these two things passively may work out for you.
Most likely it won't result in getting your problems fixed
because they take quite a long time to reply to.
But just in case it happens to help do these two things right
away, call in to customer service and call in repeatedly.
I do have several videos that show exactly my tips on how
to get through fastest.
Unfortunately, calling in is extremely difficult this week
by telling you to call in I by no means and saying that that
is an easy thing to accomplish in order to try to call in
and have the best chances to get through.
I do recommend calling 1-833-978-2511 After selecting your
language preference, you're going to wait until the announcer
says, select from the following and then type in very quickly,
all at once.
134 If this hangs up on unit tells you that there's too many
colors, hang up and try again until it gets you through.
The trick does work and does help to save time.
However, due to the volume of colors, it will not work for
everyone, and it will not work without a significant number
of tries.
Number three, if you speak any of the different languages
that are offered on the EDD's phone lines, either Spanish
or one of the other phone numbers that I'm listing here,
select that line next.
If you are someone that feels that choosing a third party
app to redial for you is a good fit, take a look at the video
that I did where I test out the two paid apps that are redial
services that do get you through to a hold line.
This is not going to be a fit for everyone, and I completely
understand that you should not have to pay a third party
service to reach a government agency.
But many of my subscribers were reporting that this was very
helpful for them, and I'm continuing to receive positive
feedback. While I'm not directly recommending that you must
use a third party service to do this, I did want to test
it for you so you could see how it works.
See my experience with it, and then decide for yourself.
And Lastly, and this is extremely important is if you are
having trouble if you cannot get through.
If you have higher level problems that aren't seeming to
get resolved, contact your Assembly member.
Your Assembly members have been extremely helpful in many
cases in expediting the solutions to your problems and in
acting as a bridge between you and the Edd higherlevel representatives.
In some cases, they aren't able to resolve your problem,
and some people have reported them to be unhelpful.
But the majority of my subscribers are still reporting that
contacting their Assembly member has made a huge difference
in getting their claim issues for solve.
Okay, guys, I hope that was helpful.
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Now, the press release that she referenced.
I'm gonna show you what it says.
Oops.
All depends.
Can't see any glasses,PEUC or PEUY.
See tier 2 and PEU.....
Too many letters.
Let me try again.
Okay.
Played on my hair.
My kids.
It's in there.