As California’s Employment Development Department (EDD) scrambles to resolve the ballooning fiasco resulting from jobless claims during the pandemic, state lawmakers are saying enough is enough. Recently released official reports cite numerous systematic problems with the agency, resulting in tens of billions of dollars paid out for fraudulent claims while needy citizens wait to receive legal benefits they desperately need. “They seem to be impervious to the situation that they are in,” Sen. Patrica Bates (R-Laguna Niguel) told The Epoch Times. “The fact that there’s no great movement to resolve it makes no sense. … How in God’s name does something like this happen and it just continues?” Bates said her staff has essentially become “de facto, surrogate EDD staffers,” working four to six hours each day to remedy some 400 unresolved cases in her district. For every page of claims they help resolve, she said, they have to add …