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.

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- 7 On Your Side revealed for the first time last night the Employment Development Department closed all of its unemployment offices - not just for the pandemic - but for good, 25 ...

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 ...

Frustration with the EDD is mounting. Complaints are pouring in to 7 On Your Side. Michael Finney has been investigating what's gone wrong at EDD. We've looked at hundreds of cases and virtually all ...

OAKLAND, Calif. - Raymond Drescher, 45, was laid off as a security guard during the pandemic and had been receiving monthly checks for several months until California's Employment Development ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- The California Employment Development Department today released new information on extending unemployment claims, and presented an updated "data dashboard" with statistics on ...

SACRAMENTO (CBS13) - It's no secret that California's unemployment agency has been plagued by fraud to the tune of more than $32 billion dollars in recent years. Now, CBS13 has obtained internal ...

Wide-ranging blunders by the state’s labor agency opened the floodgates to billions of dollars in payments for fraudulent unemployment claims, the state auditor reported Thursday in a harsh new ...

In a year in which California's unemployment department saw massive failures in its system while inundated with claims from those impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, it's now facing more backlash after ...