Hey guys, it's Ginny Silver today.
I want to talk to those of you who have California Edd pending
payments or pending certifications if your certifications
are pending with the Edd.
If you cannot get through on the Edd Customer Service phone
line, if you need more help for other issues on your Edd
claims and you are not able to get your issues resolved with
Edd Customer Service, I want to give you guys a thorough
walkthrough on how how you might be able to get your problems
resolved rather quickly with an assembly member.
Now, if you watch my channel, you have heard me reference
and recommend contacting your assembly member many times.
You may have also heard me recommend utilizing Claimyr to
contact the Edd because that service does get you to a hold
line or recommend several phone tricks that I share in other
videos. I still am recommending those phone tricks and Claimyr
still works and receive positive feedback for getting an
Edd hold line.
However, in the last several weeks the California Assembly
members have been increasing how quickly they're able to
help Claimants.
I wanted to make a standalone video for this you guys very
quickly today so that you know that while many of you are
stuck in pending due to that new quarter wage review or due
to the numerous other pending reasons that contacting your
California State Assembly member when you can't get through
to the Edd and cannot get your issues resolved has been extremely
helpful for many and over the last couple of weeks my viewers
have been reporting a much more more rapid assistance wait
time. First off, many of you are not aware of what a California
Assembly member is and have been asking you in the comments.
The California State Assembly is the lower Chamber of the
California State Legislature alongside the California State
Senate. It forms the legislative branch of the California
State Government, and they work alongside the Governor of
California to create laws and establish estate budget.
Legislative authority.
Responsibilities of the assembly include passing bills on
public policy matters, setting levels of state spending,
raising and lowering taxes, and voting to uphold or override
Vidos from the governor.
Now, while helping as an Edd, Claimant liaison is not a part
of a typical California State Assembly Members job.
During the pandemic with the volume of problems that we've
experienced with the Ed, the California State Assembly Members
have stepped up in terms of helping their constituents that
are experiencing Edd issues.
Now, the State of California is broken down into 80 different
districts. Each district elect one assembly member.
In order to contact your assembly member, you are going to
need to go to the following website in order to look up which
representative is assigned to your specific district, go
to find your Rep Legislature CA Gov.
The link is also provided in this video description.
After typing in your information, you will then be shown
exactly which Assembly Member is assigned to your district,
click on their link and it will take you to their website.
Now, because there are 80 different districts and different
assembly members assigned to each district, there is going
to be a variety of levels of helpfulness amongst each different
assembly member.
Some assembly members have a very clear way to get help with
your Edd claim listed front and center on their website,
and some assembly members may not have a clear link in order
to get help with Edd list on their website.
If your assembly member doesn't have a link to obtain Edd
help, then you're going to locate their contact information.
You can find their phone numbers listed oftentimes at the
bottom of the website.
Alternatively, you can try searching for Edd on the search
bar and see if they happen to have any information available
or most assembly members have a contact button present on
their website and for a list of direct email addresses, you
can click on the staff section.
Now, once you locate your assembly members contact information,
many claimants are unsure what to say.
You can say something similar to I am an Edd claimant and
I cannot reach the Edd for help with my claim.
I am having severe financial hardship.
I would like to see if your office is able to assist me to
get help with the following issue.
Then go on and very briefly and concisely describe your issue.
Because each assembly members office is different in this
handling Edd claimants differently, I want to share with
you a few of the screenshots that my viewers have provided
of the responses and intake forms sent over by their assembly
members. In general, the assembly members offices are responding
with an estimated wait time and some form of intake form
in order to gather your information, ask you questions about
your claim and the issues you're experiencing, and to get
authorization from you in order to talk with Edd about your
issues. Now many are worried because the Assembly Numbers
office asks you for your Social Security number and your
Edd customer account number.
In order for the Edd to work with the assembly members, the
Edd requires them to provide this information.
Without this information, the Edd will not communicate with
them on your behalf.
Now wait times in efficiency with getting help from an assembly
member has improved drastically within the last several weeks.
Recently, the California State Legislature has authorized
assembly members to hire new staff members specifically to
in order to handle the flood of requests from California
Edd claimants who cannot contact the Edd and cannot fix their
issues. Because the assembly members have been authorized
to hire new staff members in order to deal with the flood
of requests from Edd claimants, things are now seeming to
process more quickly when you contact a California Assembly
member. While each issue is going to be different, is going
to have a different processing time is going to have ways
in which the assembly members can or unfortunately, can't
help you.
I want you guys to understand that this is something that
is helping many claimants to get paid quickly and easily.
If you are someone who is stuck in pending and that's not
a file, a new claim issue, not an issue where you simply
need to wait until something such as ID verification, something
processes. I want you guys to understand that it's extremely
helpful for many claimants to contact their assembly member.
And lastly, some of you have let me know in the video comments
that when you go to search to see who your assembly member
is on, find your rep, that it Unfortunately States the seat
is not occupied and that there is no assembly member for
your district.
I want you guys to try contacting Lorena Gonzalez office
if you're unable to get any help from your assembly member.
For those of you that do not have an assembly member assigned
to your district or who can't get help, Lorana Gonzalez's
office has been extremely helpful to claimants that call
into it regardless of which district they're in.
Now, I can't guarantee that they will be able to help you.
But based on viewer feedback, Lorana Gonzalez's office seems
to be doing an amazing job helping or redirecting claimants
that are outside of her district.
When they contact them, I'm going to leave the link to her
staff contact page in the video description down below.
Okay, you guys, I really hope that was helpful.
Please let me know in the comments down below if you have
contacted your assembly member, if they were able to help
you, or if you plan to do so, please click Like subscribe
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