LOS ANGELES -- More than 4 million Californians got unemployment benefits over the last four weeks. With such high numbers, many people with questions about their benefits are having trouble getting ...

The state’s Employment Development Department wasted at least $4.6 million buying more than 6,200 cellphones amid the COVID-19 pandemic that the department didn’t use for months, the California State ...

The Employment Development Department inaccurately estimated the amount of unemployment benefits paid to ineligible Californians in recent years, a recent report from the California State Auditor ...

A former California Employment Development Department employee admitted this week in federal court to fraudulently obtaining more than $768,000 in COVID-19 unemployment payments for dead people and ...

The pandemic stress tested all sorts of boundaries for state government, not the least of which were the limits of its critical benefits systems, like those offered through the California Employment ...

A former state worker and her boyfriend at the time were each sentenced Friday to 20 months in federal prison for stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars that was slated to support Californians ...

For two decades, the former EDD building at 5401 Crenshaw Boulevard served as a place where residents accessed job support and opportunity. In 2017, the building closed when a lease-purchase agreement ...