A state auditor reported in January said the EDD gave out $800 million in jobless benefits to inmates who fraudulently filed. Now, innocent people say they're being entangled in a crackdown on ...

CBS13 has obtained internal Employment Development Department (EDD) communications that reveal the agency is asking for more money in the Governor's recently-released state budget to roll out a ...

The EDD says it's also planning to offer an option for direct deposit of benefits into personal bank accounts, avoiding debit cards entirely. Take a look at more stories and videos by Michael ...

The EDD awarded unemployment benefits to nearly three million self-employed Californians since April 2020. About two million have already submitted documents such as tax returns that show they ...

The most recent analysis puts the fraud at over $30 billion. In February EDD director Nancy Farias sent a letter to the committee placing blame for the fraud on the Trump administration.

California’s Employment Development Department, or EDD, has recovered $1.1 billion in fraudulent unemployment payments from an estimated 780,000 inactivated debit cards.