SAN FRANCISCO -- Anyone who's had to deal with the Employment Development Department over the past year knows how difficult it is to get someone on the phone to help with their unemployment claims.

MORGAN HILL, Calif. -- The U.S. Department of Labor has agreed not to make workers repay benefits they received by mistake during the pandemic, as long as they were not obtained by fraud. However, the ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. (KGO) -- In a stunning development, the Employment Development Department has shut down 350,000 unemployment claims in an effort to weed out fraud. But hundreds of valid claims were ...

OAKLAND, Calif. - Raymond Drescher, 45, was laid off as a security guard during the pandemic and had been receiving monthly checks for several months until California's Employment Development ...

EDIE: CALIFORNIA’S EMPLOYMENT DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT WAS THE TARGET OF ANOTHER FRAUD ATTEMPT. THIS TIME, CRIMINALS TRIED TO STEAL HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN BENEFITS USING PAPER AND FAX ...

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

In a year in which California's unemployment department saw massive failures in its system while inundated with claims from those impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, it's now facing more backlash after ...

SAN DIEGO — Two former employees of the state Employment Development Department are facing federal charges for allegedly filing hundreds of thousands of dollars in fraudulent unemployment claims. One ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - About one million Californians who got unemployment payments from the pandemic-related federal benefit program now have to prove they had a prior work history or possibly pay back ...