SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- The California Employment Development Department today released new information on extending unemployment claims, and presented an updated "data dashboard" with statistics on ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom's administration on Tuesday tapped a former federal prosecutor to help investigate billions of dollars in fraudulent unemployment benefits paid by the state. The ...

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We’re over a year into a deadly pandemic that has cost hundreds of thousands of Californians their jobs, and caused claims for unemployment benefits to soar into the millions. President Biden signed ...

California's embattled Employment Development Department says they have seen yet another wave of fraud attempts. This time, again, hitting unemployment claims.The department said that the latest fraud ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The California Employment Development Department says it is not seeking to ban loan-out companies, which provide a key service to ...

If you think Gov. Gavin Newsom is doing a great job, you probably haven’t tried to contact the Employment Development Department lately. The EDD’s beleaguered website had another major outage last ...

(TNS) — California’s unemployment insurance agency “caused hardship for unemployed workers and their families” during tough economic times and “mischaracterized” the extent of its problems to the ...

SAN LEANDRO, Calif. (KGO) -- Desperate. That's how you might describe the situation for hundreds of thousands of jobless whose benefits remain stuck on hold. Critics blame an antiquated EDD computer ...