More emergency benefits started coming Wednesday to gig workers, self-employed people and others who lost their jobs or had their hours cut because of the coronavirus pandemic. The state’s Employment ...

UNEMPLOYMENT, DISABILITY AND FAMILY LEAVE BENEFITS FROM THE STATE CAN NOW GET THEIR PAYMENT BY DIRECT DEPOSIT. IT’S AN EFFORT TO CRACK DOWN ON FRAUD. LAW ENFORCEMENT AND LAWMAKERS HAVE PUSHED THE ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- The federal government stopped providing special unemployment benefits to gig workers, independent contractors and the self-employed two months ago. Those special benefits were ...

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 ...

California's embattled unemployment benefits agency has cleared about 246,000 of its more than 1.6 million backlog in claims, which means more unemployment checks are on the way. The agency said ...

GET THE LATEST DEVELOPMENTS: Get unemployment benefits news updates in your email with the Daily Blend newsletter. Sign up at www.abc10.com/email The EDD estimates ...

California’s Employment Development Department is making it easier for customers receiving unemployment benefits to report ...

A scathing report released by the California State Auditor on August 24 finds that the state’s Economic Development Department (EDD) continues to mismanage the unemployment insurance (UI) program, ...

OAKLAND, Calif. (KGO) -- The race for a COVID-19 vaccine is reaching the finish line - but so are unemployment benefits for millions of Americans. Unless Congress acts fast, nearly one million ...

A new report (“Examining Widespread Fraud in Pandemic Unemployment Relief Programs”) authored by the majority staff of the US House Committee on Oversight and Accountability spotlights the massive ...