SAN FRANCISCO -- Anyone who's had to deal with the Employment Development Department over the past year knows how difficult it is to get someone on the phone to help with their unemployment claims.

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 ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Amid the coronavirus crisis, so many have questions about how to get unemployment benefits. California is seeing "unprecedented" numbers during the pandemic with roughly 4.6 million ...

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 RAMON, Calif. -- Tawnya Coogan is having a tough financial go of it during this pandemic and was surprised when she recently received an email from the EDD. "It said 'Action needed on your ...

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’ ...

SAN ANSELMO, Calif. -- A Bay Area man tried to do the right thing when the Employment Development Department accidentally overpaid his benefits. His efforts to return the money set off a chain of ...

The amount of fraud has dropped sharply since the pandemic, but California still faced financial liabilities from the unemployment surge.

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, ...

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