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Home Court filings Bofa Ca Unemployment In re: Bank of America California Unemployment Benefits Litigation — S.D. Cal., No. 21-md-02992 Exhibit 3 to the Chestnut Declaration — Bofa Ca Unemployment (Dkt. 84.7)

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Exhibit 3 to the Chestnut Declaration — Bofa Ca Unemployment (Dkt. 84.7)

Filed October 1, 2021 in Bofa Ca Unemployment; one of 1415 filings from this case.

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CourtU.S. District Court for the Southern District of California
Filed2021-10-01

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California · No. 3:21-md-02992-GPC-MSB · Doc. 84-7 · 2021-10-01 · Docket on CourtListener

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Exhibit 3
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BANK OF AMERICA q ~ 
Dawn Haddock 
Senior Client Manager 
August 24, 2020 
Sandra Mendes 
Contracts Division Chief 
Employment Development Department 
State of California 
800 Capitol Mall 
Sacramento, CA 95814 
Attn: Sandra Mendes 
Public Sector Banking 
555 Capitol Mall, Suite 765 
Sacramento, CA 95814 
T 916.326.7825 M 480.287.1848 
dawn.e .haddock@BofA.com 
This Letter Agreement (this "Letter") is made by the State of California Employment Development 
Department (the "EDD") and Bank of America, N.A. (the "Bank") in reference to EDD Agreement Number 
M6100352 (as amended, the "Agreement"). This Letter is effective August 24, 2020 ("Effective Date"). 
The EDD and Bank agree as follows. 
I. Temporary Modifications. From the Effective Date through June 30, 2021 (as such period may be 
extended by the parties hereto in writing (email is sufficient)): 
a. Any failure of the Bank to perform any of the obligations under the Agreement listed in 
Appendix 1 hereto will be excused if such failure occurs despite the Bank's use of efforts that 
are commercially reasonable in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. 
b. Certain accommodations to the Agreement requirements as listed in Appendix 2 hereto shall 
apply. 
c. The Bank's obligation to produce cards (for newly created accounts and re-issued cards for 
existing accounts) for UI and SDI benefits, inclusive, per business day, is a maximum of 
50,000 cards; provided that the Bank may issue additional cards. 
For clarity, the waivers in this Section 1 are for events occurring during the time period running 
from the Effective Date through June 30, 2021. 
2. Events Prior to the Effective Date. The EDD waives any remedies it has under the Agreement with 
respect to any failure of the Bank to have met any specific obligations or service levels under the 
Agreement ( despite exercising commercially reasonable efforts to meet them amidst the COVJD-19 
pandemic conditions) during the period from March 16, 2020 through the Effective Date. 
 
 
 
 
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Sandy Mendes
BOPSD Chief
...... 
BANK OF AMERICA~~ 
Dawn Haddock 
Senior Client Manager 
This Letter may be executed in counterparts. 
State 
of 
California 
Employment 
Development Department 
(Signature) 
(Print Name) 
(Print Title) 
(Signature) 
Dawn Haddock 
(Print Name) 
Senior Client Manager 
(Print Title) 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Appendix 1 
Requirement 
Number 
Requirement 
36 
The Contractor shall allow the EDD 15 working days for the review and approval of all artifacts developed by the Contractor in 
completion of these requirements. 
40 
The Contractor’s administrative application shall, on average, process and respond to 98 percent of administrative inquiries 
within two (2) seconds and 100 percent of administrative inquiries, on average, within five (5) seconds, on a monthly basis. 
156 
The Contractor shall provide the EDD a service capacity and performance data report on a weekly basis in accordance with an 
approved DED. This report shall include at a minimum: IVR capacity, call center capacity, website capacity, transaction 
processing platform capacity 
171 
The Contractor shall develop, provide and maintain IVR documentation for the EDD approved scripts. 
174 
The Contractor shall provide to the EDD an updated EDD Customer Service Manual within 30 days from the date of any change 
to the EBP service. 
181 
The Contractor shall have the ability to process records 30% above highest production peak workload during the term of the 
contract. 
202 
The Contractor’s blocked IVR calls shall be less than 5% of total calls on a monthly average. 
203 
The Contractor shall ensure that no call is transferred to voicemail or automatically disconnected from the queue. 
204 
The Contractor shall ensure that calls are not immediately placed on hold. A call immediately placed on hold when answered by 
a CSR does not meet the definition of "answered." 
213 
The Contractor shall have a EDD approved process for handling calls that exceed the IVR call capacity. 
226 
The Contractor shall, limit the average wait time to speak to a live CSR to no more than 30 seconds for 70 percent of the calls, 
and no more than two (2) minutes for all calls. 
480 
The Contractor shall report time slices at least hourly, for a 24 hour period beginning at 12 am for all IVR, CSC, and Website 
reports. 
487 
As required by EDD, the Contractor shall report on the number of calls abandoned in the IVR by inquiry type (options), language 
type, and the IVR scripting location. 
490 
As required by EDD, the Contractor shall report on the number of unique Automatic Number Identifications (ANIs) and the 
frequency they are accessing the toll free number. 
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Appendix 2 
Requirement 
Number 
Requirement 
39 
The Contractor’s Website shall be available seven (7) days per week, twenty-four (24) hours per day and be available and 
operational 99.0% of the time as described in Attachment V.2 Statement of Work – EBP Service Requirements. 
49 
The Contractor shall ensure scheduled maintenance to the Administrative Applications will not exceed, in aggregate, four 
(4) hours of down time per month; unless agreed to with the EDD.
80 
The Contractor shall process payment data within six (6) hours of receipt to disburse benefit payments. 
82 
The Contractor shall distribute the entire benefit amount to the EDD’s benefit claimants within six hours of cash settlement 
in the Contractor’s bank account. 
90 
The Contractor shall transmit, within six hours of cash settlement, benefit payment data back to the EDD. 
92 
The Contractor shall return exception data, within six hours of receipt of the demographic data, to the EDD indicating 
which accounts could not be established, including the error codes describing the reasons for exceptions. 
98 
The Contractor shall notify the EDD within two business days of any changes to EBP services that would affect the 
processes and activities presented in the EDD- approved Change Management Plan. 
106 
All enhancements to the EBP service shall follow the EDD's approved processes.  In the event of emergency enhancements 
to the EBP service that deviate from previously approved processes, the enhancements shall be disclosed to the EDD 
within two business days. 
164 
The Contractor shall submit to the EDD for approval, prior to release, any material associated with the EBP service that is 
available to the public or the EDD’s claimants via the Contractor's Website.  In the event of emergency changes to material 
that deviate from previously approved processes, the changes shall be disclosed to the EDD within two business days. 
169 
The Contractor shall use the EDD approved scripts for the claimant IVR.  In the event of emergency changes to IVR scripts 
that deviate from previously approved scripts, the changes shall be disclosed to the EDD within two business days. 
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170 
The Contractor shall use EDD approved scripts in the Contractor’s IVR and Call Centers for unanticipated events related 
to EBP processes and transactions.  In the event of emergency changes to IVR and Call Center scripts that deviate from 
previously approved scripts, the changes shall be disclosed to the EDD within two business days 
201 
The Contractor shall provide and maintain a U.S.- based claimant IVR that is operational seven (7) days per week, twenty-
four (24) hours per day, except for routine scheduled maintenance not to exceed four (4) hours per month. 
224 
The Contractor shall provide and maintain a CSC seven (7) days a week, twenty-four (24) hours per day, except for routine 
scheduled maintenance not to exceed four (4) hours per month. 
225 
The Contractor shall provide and maintain a CSC seven (7) days a week, twenty-four (24) hours per day, except for routine 
maintenance not to exceed four (4) hours per month. 
274 
The Contractor shall inform the EDD within two (2) hours of the loss of any contracted services including the service(s) 
disrupted and estimated time of recovery. 
492 
As required by EDD, the Contractor shall report on the number of calls to CSRs by inquiry type (options), language type, 
and IVR scripting location.  Inquiry type reports do not have to be overlaid with language.  Reports on inquiry type and 
language will be separate. 
494 
As required by EDD, the Contractor shall report on the average wait time (Average Speed of Answer) and total wait time 
to speak with a CSR by language type. 
495 
As required by EDD, the Contractor shall report on the average and total wait time in queue before abandoning while 
waiting to speak to a CSR by language type. 
498 
As required by EDD, the Contractor shall report on the number of calls answered by the CSR without being placed in a 
queue by language type. 
499 
As required by EDD, the Contractor shall report on the number of calls deflected (no available CSRs or queues are full) 
by total and by language type. 
500 
As required by EDD, the Contractor shall report on the number of calls abandoned while in queue by language type. 
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