We MUST address the impact that the "EXCESSIVE EARNINGS" has had on part-time employees or employees who had their hours cut or lost wages.

I am calling attention to an inhumane oversight made by the Employment Development Department of California, during this life-altering "shelter in place" order put on the labor force due to COVID-19. The excessive earnings math is outdated and based solely on our gross income and only takes into consideration the 25% subtract for taxes, it doesn't count deductions such as child support, health insurance, or any other type of benefit which helps reduce our net income drastically. Please take these deductions into consideration and help all these families facing hardship due excessive earnings. 

In order to receive the FPUA- according to the Implementation notice requires that claimants must be eligible for $1 of their weekly UI benefits. Claimants with excessive earnings, while they do have benefits in their accounts --- we must make at the very least $1 of the amount of their weekly benefit authorized and available to claimants and most of us are being denied because we're doing $15, or 5 dollars more than or week benefit. We ask that the EDD back pay the past 4 weeks in which the FPUA became available and issued to all  the employees with "excessive earnings" as a measure based on the foundation of humanity, and making sure all of us get through this horrific, and already devastating pandemic

The $600 that UI claimants receive(d) this would make certain that those with excessive earning weeks being served can at least put food on their table, and care for our families. These excessive earning weeks do not just sentence the individuals, it puts extreme hardship on the children and loved one.  IF the EDD is unflinching with there duty to PUNISH claimants and hardworking California- then to ask that the EDD allow $1 access for the past weeks  (all the excessive earning weeks already served should be back paid the FPUA) . The EDD would not have the burden of cost for administering such an act, as stated in the FPUA packet issued to all states- the EDD can bill for costs petition to hang on just a little longer- or that you will get back to us. 

LIKE MANY OTHERS IN THE SAME POSITION, I AM OUT OF OPTIONS - unless the State Unemployment Office can recognize this questionably unethical outdated rule during disasters and pandemics, and compassionately waive or change it. 

Thank you for your support, and please reach out if you have any contributing insights or questions. 

Los Angeles, CA