California's Employment Development Department says people qualified for PUA & PEUC extensions will be able to continue or file new claims.

A new lockdown means a new wave of people filing unemployment claims with the EDD. Here are some tips to make sure your claim is processed quickly and securely.

Some people will see lower payments as EDD switches 217,000 claims from PUA to PEUC.

These are the most commonly asked questions we hear about the California EDD and filing for unemployment.

The scathing audit said EDD bungled unemployment claims so badly that 2.4 million workers may now have to pay money back to the government because EDD did not correctly check eligibility.

But many workers reported to the Employment Development Department, which runs the PUA in California, how much they made in total.

Initially, federal law only required EDD to get income substantiation from PUA recipients when they wished to collect more in weekly benefits than the minimum of $167.

EDD managed the California program, and at first often disregarded the usual safeguards that screened potential beneficiaries. Loree Levy, EDD spokeswoman, said PUA helped support workers who ...