Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Massive layoffs during the COVID-19 pandemic also resulted in big increases in fraudulent unemployment claims. (Peter ...

LONG BEACH, Calif. (KABC) -- A Long Beach man says he's been receiving mail from the EDD addressed to random strangers for weeks. "I'm definitely thinking it's got to be some kind of fraud thing just ...

The Sacramento U.S. Attorney's Office has charged a man with wire and mail fraud in another example of the fraud that hit California's Employment Development Department during the COVID-19 pandemic.

COVID-19 — and the swell of jobless Californians that the virus’ spread produced — created two, separate billion-dollar problems for California’s Employment Development Department. Those issues have ...