SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Anyone who's had to deal with the Employment Development Department over the past year knows how difficult it is to get someone on the phone to help with their unemployment ...

The California State Auditor revealed that the agency, better known as EDD, wasted more than $4.6 million on monthly service fees for more than 6,200 mobile devices meant to be used for its ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- With so many Californians struggling with unemployment, we spoke with Loree Levy, EDD's deputy director of public affairs, to get your questions answered. What is the best way to ...

The largest amount of state funding the auditor found spent improperly was $4.6 million by the Employment Development Department (EDD) for unused cell phones and wireless hotspot devices.

According to a report by the California State Auditor, reviewers examined 54 months of billing and found EDD paid about $4.62 million in monthly service fees for mobile devices that went unused for ...

OAKLAND, Calif. - Raymond Drescher, 45, was laid off as a security guard during the pandemic and had been receiving monthly checks for several months until California's Employment Development ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- It began as a trickle of letters coming to residents scattered across the state. Now reports are sweeping California and other parts of the country of ordinary citizens opening their ...

The Employment Development Department building in downtown Sacramento. The state auditor's office has labeled EDD a "high-risk" agency for its mishandling of unemployment benefits during the COVID-19 ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- The EDD giveth and EDD taketh away. It's trying to get money into the right hands and out of the wrong hands. So, thousands may get a big bonus just before the holidays. Others ...

Bonnie Tom is newly married and excited for this next chapter in life. She’s been saving money, maybe to buy a house, but the State of California recently snatched nearly everything she’d saved.