Employment Development Department – Page 5

Is the California EDD Pulling a Pandemic Scam?

June 30, 2023 8:23 amJuly 2, 2023 12:20 pm

Despite already owing the federal government billions, and despite state businesses already paying a surcharge to cover that debt, the Employment Development Department (EDD) will be borrowing even more federal money to cover costs for the foreseeable future. In other...

And They Wonder Why… Media Run Cover for Political Allies

June 29, 2023 2:45 amJune 29, 2023 2:46 am

Yesterday, a big newspaper ran a “think piece” about why the public doesn’t trust the media anymore. The day before, there was an “op-ed” on the subject. Last week, there was a 2,000-word analysis of the issue. In fact, over...

California Owes the Feds More Than THREE YEARS of its Total Unemployment Tax Revenue

June 15, 2023 3:59 pmJune 15, 2023 4:12 pm

Right now, the California Employment Development Department owes the federal government $17,649,112,337.77 (billion) for the money it borrowed during the pandemic. The EDD expects to take in about $16.2 billion over the next three years in unemployment taxes. That means...

The Great Heist of California’s Fort Knox

April 25, 2023 12:59 pmApril 25, 2023 1:00 pm

“Fort Knox gets knocked over!” This fulsome headline would surely get worldwide attention and rightly so. Intrigue, speculation and theories about whodunnit and how it all went down would dominate the news cycle for months. What if it...

California’s EDD Continues to Borrow Hundreds of Millions – about $13 million PER DAY – To Meet its Obligations

November 28, 2022 2:30 amNovember 27, 2022 4:24 pm

Though much of the Sacramento bureaucratic blob was exposed as the simultaneously incompetent and corrupt menace it is during the pandemic, one agency stood apart by proving itself the most inept and cruel organization in the capitol – the Employment...

Underground Economic Activities in California

November 26, 2022 8:08 amNovember 26, 2022 8:16 am

Part 12.3 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the California Government Code concerns underground economic activities. Government Code Section 15925 authorizes an agency to request of information from the Employment Development Department, the California Department of Tax and Fee...

EDD Identity Firm Slapped by Congress

November 22, 2022 10:50 amNovember 22, 2022 12:29 pm

The Employment Development Department’s identity verification contractor, ID.me, came under withering Congressional fire late last week for providing allegedly misleading client wait time data and touting allegedly inflated national pandemic fraud-loss figures in order to boost its business. ID.me was...