California Employment Development Department

California Still Owes $23B in Pandemic-Era Unemployment Loans to Feds, But the Bill is Coming Due

May 20, 2026 6:54 amMay 20, 2026 6:58 am

California is the only state in the country that hasn’t repaid its COVID-era unemployment loans to the federal government. And Governor Gavin Newsom is sticking the bill to the state’s business owners. Not many Californians even knew that California borrowed...

It’s Time Former ‘Acting’ Labor Secretary Julie Su Faces Heat For California’s Pandemic Fraud

February 3, 2025 2:57 amFebruary 3, 2025 7:34 am

In 2020 during Governor Gavin Newsom’s statewide Covid lockdown, he announced the formation of a “strike team” to solve numerous issues plaguing California’s unemployment agency, the Orwellian-named “Employment Development Department: long wait times for unemployment claims, delayed payments, phone delays,...

Su Creates Debt, Su Forgives Debt, Su Troubles Congress

August 22, 2024 7:00 amAugust 22, 2024 7:01 am

The entire California Republican delegation has signed a letter – written by Congresswoman Michelle Steel – demanding Acting Labor Secretary Julie Su explain why she has – yet again – possibly lied to Congress. At a hearing of the House...

EDD Admits $55 Billion Lost in Pandemic… $55 Billion!

April 10, 2024 4:36 pmApril 10, 2024 4:37 pm

The California Employment Development Department admits that $55 billion was lost in the pandemic. $55 Billion. That’s what the hapless state unemployment agency – the not at all ironically named Employment Development Department – now admits was its “overpayment” amount...

Will the EDD Debt Damage California’s Credit Rating?

August 28, 2023 5:44 pmAugust 28, 2023 5:44 pm

Typically, when a person or a business adds a massive amount of debt due to its own incompetence, credit ratings are impacted. And not in a good way. The California Employment Development Department did just that during the pandemic, losing...

The Pandemic Wiped Out 3 Million Jobs in California

July 16, 2023 10:01 amJuly 16, 2023 10:02 am

The pandemic wiped out 3 million jobs in California. Then why did the Employment Development Department send out 9 million unemployment benefit debit cards? Since almost all of the cards were sent out in the first 10 months of the...

BREAKING: California EDD ‘Structurally Insolvent’

July 8, 2023 8:26 amJuly 8, 2023 8:44 am

The Unemployment Insurance (UI) trust fund the California Employment Development Department uses to pay benefits is now “structurally insolvent” a new Legislative Analyst’s Office report states. The report – a reaction to the “May Fund Forecast” released by the EDD...