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CUAB reports low intake, CAMS migration delay and DOL funding requests
Summary
Board leaders reported May performance metrics showing strong timeliness, a delayed CAMS migration for tax petitions pending additional development work, completed network upgrades, staff hires, and submitted requests to the U.S. Department of Labor for pandemic‑era program funding.
The California Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board received operational updates on June 17 showing continued progress on case timeliness, a postponement of a planned CAMS migration for tax petitions and several staffing and funding developments.
Chief Judge Cutri told the board field offices closed 15,311 decisions in May, leaving roughly 15,000 open UI appeals and maintaining an average case age of 29.4 days, within Department of Labor guidelines. Cutri said the CAMS integration for the Office of Tax Petitions was postponed to the next quarter after subject matter and IT teams identified additional development tasks; a smaller set of tax cases will be migrated in the interim.
Rebecca Bach reported second‑level review performance exceeded DOL targets: 57.1% of cases closed within 45 days (guideline 50%) and 99.9% within 75 days (guideline 80%), with an average second‑level case age of 28.3 days (guideline 40 days).
John Compe, the board’s chief information officer, said a key network infrastructure upgrade was successfully completed to improve resiliency and security and that the team is targeting next quarter for the larger CAMS migration once refinements are finished.
Robert Silver gave a recruitment and fiscal update: two office technician hires (Los Angeles and Sacramento, the Sacramento hire is Spanish‑bilingual), an in‑place promotion in Orange County, and a canceled Englewood support recruitment. Silver said the board submitted U.S. Department of Labor funding requests to cover ongoing costs for pandemic programs: $352,000 for Pandemic Unemployment Assistance, $105,000 for Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation and $49,000 for Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation.
No board member challenged the reported numbers at the meeting. The board approved meeting minutes earlier in the session and adjourned after the reports.
