California has one of the largest unemployment insurance programs in the country, paying out benefits to over a million people.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

In a letter sent to California’s Employment Development Department, the Department of Labor shared with state officials that it would soon be deploying a “strike team” to the state, ...

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 ...

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 ...

An aerial view of the California State Capitol on Feb. 1, 2023, in Sacramento, California. Justin Sullivan Getty Images/TNS After the Employment Development Department struggled to meet Californians’ ...