Cerritos firm secured unemployment benefits for 82-year-old Long Beach woman with dementia

Michele Gutierrez’s 82-year-old mother hasn’t worked a day since retiring 18 years ago from a successful career as the owner of a Long Beach home health care business.
So it was with dismay in December that Gutierrez discovered an unusual $450 charge to her mom’s debit card from ML Tax and Insurance in Cerritos to process an application for California unemployment benefits and qualify her for an additional $300 a week in federal Pandemic Unemployment Assistance.
“She told