Recent arrests suggest massive fraud in California's unemployment system

• He was arrested last month in Las Vegas and prosecutors say he used stolen identities to file for $1.2 million in benefits through at least 92 debit cards that had been pre-loaded with fraudulently obtained benefits and mailed to different addresses.
• More than $704,000 of these benefits were accessed through cash withdrawals, per the Daily Mail.

In a separate incident, Beverly Hills police arrested 44 people and confiscated 129 fraudulently obtained debit cards potentially worth more than $2.5 million in benefits issued by the state, the Los Angeles Times reported.

Yes, but: Even after the two-week pause, there is still a massive backlog of unemployment claims unprocessed in the state and its estimated 1.2 million claims won't be paid until late January.