LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) — Fraudsters are once again targeting EDD but this time, they're going after disability claims. The department is now being accused of moving too slowly while it weeds out the bad ...

OAKLAND, Calif. - Legitimate disability claimants whose accounts were frozen by California’s Employment Development Department because of suspected fraud, are finally receiving letters to verify their ...

The backlog of claims for unemployment benefits filed by California workers has been stuck over 1 million for more than a month, according to the Employment Development Department. As of Tuesday, the ...

After suspending 345,000 disability checks because of fraud concerns, California officials on Thursday confirmed nearly all of those suspected claims were associated with criminals trying to trick the ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (KGO) -- The California Employment Development Department held a phone press conference on Thursday to update the public on the beleaguered agency's efforts to improve their service ...

COMPTON, Calif. (KGO) -- We've heard the astronomical numbers: as much as $30 billion in fraudulent unemployment benefits paid by the EDD. Now in the latest twist, millions of Californians who never ...

The Employment Development Department is validating just a modest fraction every week of the 1.4 million unemployment claims that were abruptly suspended due to suspected fraud, California’s embattled ...

California’s labor agency was woefully unprepared for the recession-linked spike in jobless claims in 2020 and may continue to face a high backlog of unpaid unemployment claims, according to a ...

The state Legislature has authorized Assembly members to hire new staffers to handle a flood of requests from California workers struggling to receive unemployment benefits in the wake of ...