(a) The department shall place a high priority on the automation of the Benefit Payment Control Program, specifically including, but not limited to, automating the ledger and collection functions.
(b) An automated system for the Benefit Payment Control Program shall include a function which provides for the automatic issuance of monthly collection letters to unemployment insurance claimants who have received benefit overpayments.
(c) Personnel savings from automation of the Benefit Payment Control Program, notwithstanding any other provision of law, shall be redirected to the processing of additional willful overpayment cases.
(Added by Stats. 1983, Ch. 1226, Sec. 5. Effective September 30, 1983.)