EDD Archives

Monetizing Data: The EDD, ID.me, and the Unemployed of California

September 14, 2021 2:15 amSeptember 15, 2021 2:00 pm

In the spring of 2020, the pandemic caught many by surprise – no organization, it seems, was caught more by surprise than the California Employment Development Department. When the economy was essentially shut down by edict, both the state and...

Gov. Newsom Gets an Assist as CA Democrats Delay Hearing on $31 Billion in Unemployment Fraud

August 19, 2021 5:25 pm

Perhaps one of the most important hearings of the year to investigate California’s Employment Development Department fraud of $31 billion during the COVID pandemic, was postponed by California’s legislative Democrats. Democrats on the Joint Legislative Audit Committee already delayed the...

America’s ‘Misery Index’ is Déjà vu All Over Again

August 9, 2021 11:42 am

I am re-reading the 2015 book by Paul Kengor, Ph.D., “11 Principles of a Reagan Conservative.” Kengor is a professor of political science at Grove City College in Pennsylvania, and executive director of The Center for Vision & Values. Professor...

What the Recall Candidates are Saying About the State’s Most Dysfunctional Agency

August 2, 2021 5:05 pmAugust 2, 2021 4:19 pm

One of the hot button issues of the entire recall effort has been California’s Employment Development Department’s disastrous handling of the massive unemployment increase, a result of the pandemic and its concomitant state-ordered business lockdowns. The mishandling – which managed...

EDD Rolls Out All Chipped Unemployment Benefit Debit Cards

July 27, 2021 2:44 amJuly 26, 2021 8:57 pm

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...

EDD Changes Unemployment Payment Policy Following Lawsuit

July 23, 2021 11:07 am

The Employment Development Department (EDD) announced on Thursday that unemployment payments would now be going through for claimants while they are under investigation or otherwise have been pending for more than two weeks under a new “pay now” policy. Specifically,...

Louisiana Officials Arrest 8 People Connected To Over $1 Million Defrauded from EDD

July 22, 2021 2:23 amJuly 21, 2021 6:59 pm

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...