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Tag: Pandemic Unemployment Assistance

California’s EDD Continues to Borrow Hundreds of Millions – about $13 million PER DAY – To Meet its Obligations

November 28, 2022   2:30 amNovember 27, 2022   4:24 pm
Though much of the Sacramento bureaucratic blob was exposed as the simultaneously incompetent and corrupt menace it is during the pandemic, one agency stood apart by proving itself the most inept and cruel organization in the capitol – the Employment...
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California’s EDD – Same As It Ever Was

September 26, 2022   6:56 amSeptember 27, 2022   2:17 pm
This article has been updated to explain a correction. “In response to pandemic problems, EDD unveils massive reform initiative.” A headline that anyone has seen?  Nope. A headline that should have been seen?  Yup. A headline Governor Newsom and the legislature...
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California Borrowed $20.5 Billion From Feds For State Unemployment Payments

May 28, 2021   2:40 amMay 27, 2021   6:52 pm
Not many Californians know that California borrowed $20,501,188,129 billion from the federal government to pay unemployment claims. This loan will be repaid by the state and California employers. The California Legislative Analyst’s Office issued a report Wednesday about this loan...
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EDD Computers GO Down Again, Following Numerous Breakdowns and Fraud Claims

March 22, 2021   3:41 pmMarch 22, 2021   3:59 pm
Assemblyman Jim Patterson said Monday in a press conference his office was notified by EDD employee insiders that the EDD computer systems are currently down and have been for some time. Patterson said they have contacted the EDD for details...
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EDD Unemployment Fraud Leaving Californians Facing a Looming Tax Tsunami

February 2, 2021   6:41 pmMarch 22, 2021   3:14 pm
In November, California Globe reported that District Attorneys from across California joined together for a press briefing hosted by Sacramento County DA Anne Marie Schubert and El Dorado County DA Vern Pierson, to expose the massive unemployment benefits fraud in jails and prisons...
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CA Labor Secretary Julie Su is ‘Failing Up’ After Massive EDD Fraud and Failures

January 26, 2021   12:05 pmJanuary 26, 2021   2:07 pm
California Globe has been reporting for months on the horrific fraud in California’s unemployment agency, the Orwellian-named “Employment Development Department.” In July, Governor Gavin Newsom announced the formation of a “strike team” to solve numerous issues plaguing the Employment Development...
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California’s 2020 Unemployment Fraud Claims May Top $31 BILLION

January 26, 2021   2:24 amJanuary 25, 2021   8:55 pm
California Labor and Workforce Development Agency Secretary Julie Su announced Monday that, in 2020, fraudsters stole at least $11.4 billion in unemployment benefits from California. Su also noted that another $20 billion may have also been stolen  by identity thieves and...
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