California will not accept new unemployment claims for the next two weeks as the state works to prevent fraud and reduce a substantial backlog, officials said late Saturday.

Gov. Newsom signed a raft of bills further forcing the EDD to clean up and streamline its act; a small consolation to those on the backlog of claims.

According to the EDD, the new conditional payment program will send funds to potentially hundreds of thousands of people with a continued claim who previously had at least one payment but then ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Help is finally on the way for more than 100,000 Californians who have been waiting weeks, or even months, for the Employment Development Department (EDD) to pay them their ...

A mammoth backlog of unemployment claims in California has reached its highest levels in more than two months, with well over 1 million workers stuck in bureaucratic limbo. As of May 8, about 1.11 ...