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 ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- A brand new lockdown brings with it a fresh round of workers having their hours cut, or being furloughed or laid off from their jobs. As the newly-unemployed begin to turn to an ...

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SACRAMENTO, Calif — Hundreds of thousands of people will see a change in the amount of money they get in their unemployment benefits, as California’s Employment Development Department (EDD) moves them ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...