California's unemployment department bought more cellphones than it needed during the COVID pandemic and kept paying for ...

The largest amount of state funding the auditor found spent improperly was $4.6 million by the Employment Development ...

According to a report by the California State Auditor, reviewers examined 54 months of billing and found EDD paid about $4.62 ...

The Solano County unemployment rate was 5.3 percent in November, unchanged from a revised 5.3 percent in October, and above the year-ago estimate of 4.9 percent, officials at the state Employment ...

California will not accept new unemployment claims for the next two weeks as the state works to prevent fraud and reduce a substantial backlog, officials said late Saturday. "It's overwhelming. People ...

The Sacramento U.S. Attorney's Office has charged a man with wire and mail fraud in another example of the fraud that hit California's Employment Development Department during the COVID-19 pandemic.

“Gov. Gavin Newsom’s staff at one point emailed LWDA [Labor and Workforce Development Agency] Secretary Julie Su to notify her that an individual was using the governor’s Social Security number to ...