Tag: California unemployment fraud
OPINION: The Nation Needs Newsom vs. DeSantis in 2024
For all the tumult of today, we as a nation are merely dithering around the edges of the most critical question of our times – do we stop or go? Does America go down the path of cultural least resistance...
EDD Rolls Out All Chipped Unemployment Benefit Debit Cards
The Employment Development Department (EDD) began issuing all chip-enabled debit cards on Sunday as a way to severely decrease unemployment fraud in California. In 2020, the EDD suffered a confirmed $11.4 billion in fraudulent unemployment payment, with the final amount...
Louisiana Officials Arrest 8 People Connected To Over $1 Million Defrauded from EDD
Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry and the Louisiana Bureau of Investigation (LBI) announced on Wednesday that 8 Louisianans have been arrested for defrauding the California Employment Development Department (EDD) out of $1 million last year. In total, the sweep covered...
Former Chief Federal Prosecutor McGregor Scott Joins California Unemployment Fraud Investigation
Six months after the California Labor and Workforce Development Agency first announced that up to $31 billion had been stolen by unemployment fraudsters in 2020, state officials announced Tuesday that a former federal prosecutor had been selected so serve as...