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 ...

Sasha Lizette Jimenez, 26, was found guilty of using stolen identities to fraudulently apply for over $2.8 million in unemployment insurance from the California Employment Development Department. / US ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The state’s unemployment agency potentially overpaid an estimated $55 billion in recent years to people who may not have been ...

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

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.

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 ...

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 ...

SAN RAMON, Calif. -- Tawnya Coogan is having a tough financial go of it during this pandemic and was surprised when she recently received an email from the EDD. "It said 'Action needed on your ...

Well over 1.1 million new unemployment claims just last week, down only slightly from the previous week but well over any other we experienced in the Great Recession. The department also has been ...

The California Employment Development Department says it is not seeking to ban loan-out companies, which provide a key service to many entertainment workers, after concerns were raised by such ...