We’re over a year into a deadly pandemic that has cost hundreds of thousands of Californians their jobs, and caused claims for unemployment benefits to soar into the millions. President Biden signed ...

People who might need to reopen a claim include those who collected benefits earlier in the pandemic, returned to work and stopped collecting benefits, but now are once again out of work or have had ...

McClatchy reporter David Lightman took questions from readers this week about unemployment benefits — and the difficulty people have reaching the agency that manages the program. The second new ...