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.

What You Need to Know: California's Employment Development Department is making it easier for customers receiving unemployment benefits to report required wages and income information while receiving ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- The federal government stopped providing special unemployment benefits to gig workers, independent contractors and the self-employed two months ago. Those special benefits were ...

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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 ...