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.

Tricia B. says she's getting desperate. The Livermore woman reached out to NBC Bay Area when her unemployment benefits application got hung up in the California Employment Development Department's ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- State legislators held a scathing news conference Thursday morning calling on California's Employment Development Department to reform its ways immediately as countless ...

UNEMPLOYMENT, DISABILITY AND FAMILY LEAVE BENEFITS FROM THE STATE CAN NOW GET THEIR PAYMENT BY DIRECT DEPOSIT. IT’S AN EFFORT TO CRACK DOWN ON FRAUD. LAW ENFORCEMENT AND LAWMAKERS HAVE PUSHED THE ...

“How on earth am I going to survive this?” asks Glenn Prasad. The south Sacramento former Uber and Lyft driver has maxed out his credit card. He pays $2,000 a month rent. He needs his unemployment ...

According to the most recent summary data from 2024, California’s approximately 1.3 million veterans make up about 7.4 ...

"Both said there's no problem with my card... But I was like, clearly there's a problem if I'm missing $10,000." SAN FRANCISCO -- The California Employment Development Department has been battling a ...

Hundreds of mailings purportedly from the state’s unemployment agency — some with valuable debit cards — are flooding the wrong homes and are addressed to the wrong people, and Gov. Gavin Newsom and ...