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Fraud Reduction Bill to Cross-Check EDD and Prisoner Records Passes Committee

April 8, 2021 2:17 pm

A bill to require the Employment Development Department (EDD) to check benefit applications against prisoner incarceration records to reduce unemployment benefit fraud was passed in the Assembly Consumer Privacy and Protection Committee on Thursday. Assembly Bill 110, authored by Assemblywoman Cottie...

EDD Computers GO Down Again, Following Numerous Breakdowns and Fraud Claims

March 22, 2021 3:41 pmMarch 22, 2021 3:59 pm

Assemblyman Jim Patterson said Monday in a press conference his office was notified by EDD employee insiders that the EDD computer systems are currently down and have been for some time. Patterson said they have contacted the EDD for details...

Bill to Help Prevent Future Inmate Unemployment Fraud Passes Senate Committee

March 17, 2021 3:27 pm

A bill to help prevent future inmate Employment Development Department (EDD) fraud by cross checking unemployment insurance claims with state and county prison rolls passed in the Senate Public Safety Committee Tuesday. Senate Bill 39, authored by Senator Shannon Grove...

California Work Opportunity Tax Credit

March 12, 2021 6:51 amMarch 12, 2021 7:00 am

On March 10, State Senator Monique Limon (D-Santa Barbara) amended her Senate Bill 553 to create a state work opportunity tax credit (WOTC). The bill would add and repeal Sections 17053.71 and 23672 of the Revenue and Taxation Code. As...

Legislation to Establish an Unemployment Insurance Advisory Committee

February 19, 2021 12:24 pmFebruary 19, 2021 12:37 pm

On February 18, Assemblyman Tom Lackey (R-Palmdale) amended his Assembly Bill 42, which would establish an advisory committee on insurance. The bill would add Article 2 (commencing with Section 370) to Chapter 2 of Part 1 of Division 1 to...

Congressional House Oversight Republicans Demand Investigation Into $11.4 Billion EDD Fraud Case

February 3, 2021 11:08 amMarch 25, 2021 11:08 am

On Thursday, Republican members of the House Oversight Committee demanded that they begin an investigation into California’s Employment Development Department $11.4 billion fraud case. Fraud cases began to show up in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic in March...

EDD Unemployment Fraud Leaving Californians Facing a Looming Tax Tsunami

February 2, 2021 6:41 pmMarch 22, 2021 3:14 pm

In November, California Globe reported that District Attorneys from across California joined together for a press briefing hosted by Sacramento County DA Anne Marie Schubert and El Dorado County DA Vern Pierson, to expose the massive unemployment benefits fraud in jails and prisons...