The EDD urges caution against scammers using text-message schemes, or "smishing". These texts trick people into clicking a link in order to reactivate their account. The action seems necessary as the ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- A spokesperson for California's embattled Employment Development Department joined ABC7's program "Getting Answers" on Thursday to discuss the problems millions of Californians ...

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 ...

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.

Kaymeisha Keyes, 31, defrauded EDD by filling out more than 70 fraudulent unemployment insurance claims between 2020 and 2021. A Tracy woman pleaded guilty to scamming more than $1 million worth of ...

California officials blasted the Trump administration’s plans to launch a full-sale investigation into unemployment fraud as ”purely political” — and blamed lost money on the feds. The US Department ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The California Employment Development Department says it is not seeking to ban loan-out companies, which provide a key service to ...