Sacramento's embattled Employment Development Department faced tough questions from five legislators during a joint oversight hearing in Sacramento on Wednesday. This comes after more than two years ...

If you require a phone interview to see if you’re eligible for unemployment benefits, you may have to wait up to 26 weeks for someone at the state’s Employment Development Department to talk with you.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The Employment Development Department (EDD) said, of the $177 billion it has paid in unemployment claims, about $20 billion of that was fraudulent. After months of waiting and ...