SACRAMENTO, Calif. (KGO) -- The ongoing fiasco at EDD came under the spotlight Monday. Gov. Gavin Newsom released his highly-anticipated task force report on what's gone wrong, revealing 600,000 ...

The amount of fraud has dropped sharply since the pandemic, but California still faced financial liabilities from the unemployment surge.

A former California Employment Development Department employee admitted this week in federal court to fraudulently obtaining more than $768,000 in COVID-19 unemployment payments for dead people and ...

CAPITOL RIGHT NOW. THE STATE WILL TAKE A LITTLE MORE MONEY OUT OF THE PAYCHECKS OF ALL CALIFORNIA WORKERS, STARTING IN THE NEW YEAR, AND THIS IS BECAUSE OF A SMALL TAX INCREASE THAT WAS QUIETLY ...

Kim Tanner, a marketing consultant, sits in front of her computer at home in Carlsbad on Oct. 11, 2024. Tanner kept detailed records after she says funds she received from the California Employment ...

OAKLAND, Calif. - Though inflation continued to tick down last month, unemployment ticked up, especially in the Golden State where a reliable gain in jobs saw a small but sudden dip. The overall U.S.

The pandemic stress tested all sorts of boundaries for state government, not the least of which were the limits of its critical benefits systems, like those offered through the California Employment ...

The Humboldt County unemployment rate jumped to 5.6% in June, the highest rate of the year, according to data released by the California Employment Development Department on Friday. In May, the rate ...

A new federal law gives freelancers desperately needed unemployment insurance coverage in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. The need for coverage is particularly acute in California — a gig ...

Kim Tanner didn’t expect to become a fraud detective when she filed for disability with the California Employment Development Department. But in mid-July, $3,161 vanished from her online account with ...