SAN RAMON, Calif. -- Tawnya Coogan is having a tough financial go of it during this pandemic and was surprised when she recently received an email from the EDD. "It said 'Action needed on your ...

LONG BEACH, Calif. (KABC) -- A Long Beach man says he's been receiving mail from the EDD addressed to random strangers for weeks. "I'm definitely thinking it's got to be some kind of fraud thing just ...

The Department of Justice says that 40-year-old Anthony Mark Silva reportedly collected personal information from numerous ...

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 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.

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 Employment Development Department building in downtown Sacramento. The state auditor's office has labeled EDD a "high-risk" agency for its mishandling of unemployment benefits during the COVID-19 ...

Kaymeisha Keyes, 31, defrauded EDD by filling out more than 70 fraudulent unemployment insurance claims between 2020 and 2021. A Tracy woman pleaded guilty to scamming more than $1 million worth of ...

A Sacramento woman pleaded guilty on Thursday to aggravated identity theft and mail fraud in connection with a scheme prosecutors say stole $2.6 million in COVID-era benefits from the state’s ...

Michael Thompson, 69, seen during a 2021 podcast recording session, was arrested in Lake County, Calif., on Monday, June 7, 2021, on charges of collecting more than $383,000 in fraudulent Employment ...