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Tag: Employment Development Department

SEIU Labor Union Leader Resigns Following Embezzlement, Tax Fraud Charges

October 14, 2021   2:17 amApril 3, 2022   7:58 am
On Wednesday, Alma Hernandez, the Executive Director for Service Employees International Union (SEIU), the largest labor union in California resigned after her and her husband, Jose Moscoso, were charged by California Attorney General Rob Bonta on numerous embezzlement and tax...
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EDD Rolls Out All Chipped Unemployment Benefit Debit Cards

July 27, 2021   2:44 amJuly 26, 2021   8:57 pm
The Employment Development Department (EDD) began issuing all chip-enabled debit cards on Sunday as a way to severely decrease unemployment fraud in California. In 2020, the EDD suffered a confirmed $11.4 billion in fraudulent unemployment payment, with the final amount...
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Longtime Republican Policy Advisor Lanhee Chen Announces 2022 State Controller Run

July 6, 2021   10:47 am
Longtime Republican policy advisor, Stanford Professor, and Hoover Institution Fellow Lanhee Chen announced that he would be running for state Controller on Tuesday after months of speculation. Chen, who has also served in advisory roles for former President George W....
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Bill to Crosscheck EDD Applicants With CDCR Prison Records Passes Senate Comm.

June 30, 2021   3:01 pmJuly 1, 2021   7:09 am
A bill to require the Employment Development Department (EDD) to check benefit applications against prisoner incarceration records to reduce unemployment benefit fraud was passed unanimously in the Senate Public Safety Committee on Tuesday. Assembly Bill 110, authored by Assemblywoman Cottie Petrie-Norris (D-Laguna...
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May Jobs Report Shows CA Still Lagging Behind Most States

June 26, 2021   9:01 amJuly 1, 2021   7:13 am
While California Governor Gavin Newsom claims the state is “Roaring Back,” the most recent U.S. jobs report tells another story: California is still mewling in the 46th spot out of 51 on “unemployment bounce back.” However, the largest job gains...
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EDD Announces Only People Actively Seeking Work Will Receive Unemployment Benefits

June 18, 2021   4:21 pmJune 24, 2021   6:15 am
The Employment Development Department (EDD) announced on Thursday that unemployment benefits will no longer be given to people not actively applying for jobs. California has had the looking-for-work requirement suspended for the last 15 months, ever since the COVID-19 pandemic...
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How to Fix the California’s Unemployment Agency

May 17, 2021   8:16 amMay 17, 2021   8:27 am
California’s unemployment insurance agency, the Employment Development Department, has had a rough year. True, the wounds were self-inflicted; it’s as if EDD went to a gun range and fired at everything except the target, so much so that the “collateral...
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