After the Employment Development Department struggled to meet Californians’ unemployment insurance needs and dealt with an extensive amount of fraud during the COVID-19 pandemic, state lawmakers ...
California’s unemployment rate ticked down to 5.4% in January as employers added 93,500 jobs, signaling continued strength in ...
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- As the pandemic swept the nation, collapsed the economy and threw millions out of their jobs, it was time for the California Employment Development Department to step up and ...
More than 3 million Californians are expected to receive lost wages assistance payments by the end of this week, after the state's employment development department took two weeks to tackle "fraud" ...
FRESNO, Calif. -- On Thursday, the State Auditor said the California Employment Development Department is making it easier for criminals to conduct identity theft and fraud by printing social security ...
In the past six months, the jobs report has been several months delayed and inconsistent; it's unclear when March figures ...
“How on earth am I going to survive this?” asks Glenn Prasad. The south Sacramento former Uber and Lyft driver has maxed out his credit card. He pays $2,000 a month rent. He needs his unemployment ...
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 ...