SACRAMENTO, Calif — Millions of people in California could soon their unemployment benefits restored as the Employment Development Department said it is ready to start offering extended benefits ...

The American Rescue Plan includes an extension of PUA and PEUC benefits along with another $300 per week unemployment boost, but EDD says it won't be able to roll those benefits out to everyone until ...

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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (KGO) -- The California State Auditor issued a scathing report Tuesday on the EDD's disastrous response to a surge in unemployment claims during the pandemic. The report says the ...

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

About 1 million Californians who got unemployment payments from the pandemic-related federal benefit program now have to prove to the state they had a prior work history – or face paying back benefits ...

The state’s unemployment agency potentially overpaid an estimated $55 billion in recent years to people who may not have been eligible for jobless benefits, a California state audit has found. It is ...

Many of the hundreds of thousands of California gig workers and independent contractors won’t have to repay part of their unemployment aid, under a provision in the new COVID-19 stimulus package ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- The California State Auditor issued a scathing report Tuesday on the EDD's disastrous response to a surge in unemployment claims during the pandemic. The report says the mistakes ...