Scammers first started manipulating the state’s unemployment system, or EDD, by stealing identities and applying for benefits. The result: thousands of EDD debit cards were mailed to abandoned houses, ...

Bonnie Tom is newly married and excited for this next chapter in life. She’s been saving money, maybe to buy a house, but the State of California recently snatched nearly everything she’d saved.

The Assemblywoman said that EDD is still in the process of reaching out to everyone who had their accounts suspended. That process alone is expected to continue through January 14. So, if you have not ...

"EDD has become an absolute catastrophe," Rep. Josh Harder of Turlock said. " Every week that innocent people go without their unemployment check, they're making it more difficult for folks to buy ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- The Employment Development Department, already beset by turmoil, just renewed its troubled partnership with Bank of America, a move that infuriated many lawmakers and the bank ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. (KGO) -- 7 On Your Side has reported on the massive freeze of disability benefits as the Employment Development Department (EDD) tries to weed out fraudulent claims. The EDD suspended ...

SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — In a tweet this weekend, the Employment Development Department announced it was suspending an unspecified number of accounts in an effort to weed out fraud, blindsiding many who ...

MORGAN HILL, Calif. -- The U.S. Department of Labor has agreed not to make workers repay benefits they received by mistake during the pandemic, as long as they were not obtained by fraud. However, the ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Our sister station KGO-TV in San Francisco has been reporting on the latest difficulty facing unemployed Californians. Bank of America has been draining money out of thousands of EDD ...

HE HAS THE STORY OF A VIEWER W HAS BEEN CUT OFF TWICE NOW. >> IT HAS JUST BEEN A NIGHTMARE. THE WHOLE THING HAS BEEN A NIGHTMARE. BRIAN: JAMES KESTERSON HAS BEEN WORKING WITH ASSEMBLYMAN KEVIN KILEY’S ...

DEPARTMENT. >> WHAT IS YOUR UPDATED ESTIMATE OF THE FRAUD THAT WAS PERPETRATED THROUGHOUT THE PANDEMIC? >> OF THE $177 BILLION THAT WAS IDPA OUT, $20 BILLION IS ESTIMATED TO BE FRAUDULENT. >> The ...