not to talk more to answer your questions about lots of things is employment and labor attorney angela reddickank you for joining us. you are the managing partner and founder of the reddick law group. getting the extra $300 of federal unemployment benefits just got harder for californians who are out of work. what is the edd now requiring? >> we may recall 15 months ago when the pandemic started, or at least we started to go out from work related to the pandemic. people started to apply for benefits. the federal government in many governments like california passed laws that allow for individuals to get extra money as a part of unemployment benefits during the time of the pandemic. during that time, individuals no longer had to prove they were looking for work. it was acceptable and understood if they were necessarily looking for work. what the california edd has decided as a part of incentivizing people to get back to work and get the economy moving is going back to older rules which say that in order to continue receiving unemployment benefits, whether the extended benefits or even your norm