LOS ANGELES -- More than 4 million Californians got unemployment benefits over the last four weeks. With such high numbers, many people with questions about their benefits are having trouble getting ...

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 ...

Bonnie Tom is newly married and excited for this next chapter in life. She’s been saving money, maybe to buy a house, but the State of California recently snatched nearly everything she’d saved.

UNEMPLOYMENT, DISABILITY AND FAMILY LEAVE BENEFITS FROM THE STATE CAN NOW GET THEIR PAYMENT BY DIRECT DEPOSIT. IT’S AN EFFORT TO CRACK DOWN ON FRAUD. LAW ENFORCEMENT AND LAWMAKERS HAVE PUSHED THE ...

As part of a settlement of an Alameda County lawsuit, the California Employment Development Department agreed to overhaul how it informs claimants that the agency has retroactively denied them ...

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 ...