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Excessive Number of New EDD Claims Points to Probable Rise of Fraudulent Cases

January 22, 2021   5:57 pmJanuary 22, 2021   5:59 pm
The Employment Development Department Friday reported a large increase in the number of Pandemic Unemployment Assistance claims in the previous week from independent contractors and self-employed individuals, suggesting that fraudulent claims are still being attempted en masse. According to the...
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Bill to Crosscheck EDD Applicants With Prison Records Introduced in Assembly

December 17, 2020   2:15 pmDecember 18, 2020   10:11 am
On Thursday, a new bill was introduced in the Assembly that would require the Employment Development Department to check benefit applications against prisoner incarceration records. Assembly Bill 110, authored by Assemblywoman Cottie Petrie-Norris (D-Laguna Beach), would cross-check all EDD benefit...
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California EDD Sent Millions in Unemployment Benefits to Inmates in Jails and Prisons

November 24, 2020   4:57 pmNovember 25, 2020   4:39 pm
Tuesday 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 in California....
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California Unemployment Agency Exposed 38M Social Security Numbers

November 20, 2020   7:04 amNovember 20, 2020   7:05 am
In a formal letter to California Governor Gavin Newsom, President pro Tempore of the Senate Sen. Toni Atkins, and Speaker of the Assembly Anthony Rendon, California State Auditor Elaine Howle told them regarding the Auditor’s report sounding the alarm on...
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UPDATE: Sacramento County Board of Supervisors Declares Racism a Countywide Public Health Crisis

November 19, 2020   1:05 pmNovember 19, 2020   1:11 pm
UPDATE below: As Sacramento County was moved back into the most restrictive COVID lockdown tier Monday by Gov. Gavin Newsom, rather than fight for their constituents, the Sacramento County Board of Supervisors approved on Tuesday a resolution “declaring racism as...
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EDD Begins To Reduce Backlogged Unemployment Claims Following System Updates

October 8, 2020   3:44 pmOctober 9, 2020   6:50 am
On Wednesday, the Employment Development Department (EDD) announced that 246,000 of the 1.6 million backlogged unemployment claims have been paid and mailed following a two-week hiatus of claims. However, the backlog will still take well into January 2021 to address....
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California’s Unemployment Averages 27 percent of All U.S. Claims

September 22, 2020   8:07 amSeptember 22, 2020   3:08 pm
Since Gov. Gavin Newsom shutdown California businesses in mid-March, Californians have filed 8.6 million total new claims for unemployment. In the age group of working Californians, ages 18-65, this is a rate of 39% of unemployed, higher than at the...
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