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The state’s unemployment agency potentially overpaid an estimated $55 billion in recent years to people who may not have been eligible for jobless benefits, a California state audit has found.
When COVID struck in March 2020, U.S. unemployment jumped to 14.8% a month later and brought unprecedented jobless claims, forcing California and many other states to borrow from the federal ...
In the United States, there is a standard of 26 weeks of unemployment compensation, known as "regular unemployment insurance (UI) benefits".As of December 2020, the U.S. has three programs for extending unemployment benefits: [1] Emergency Unemployment Compensation (EUC), Extended Benefits (EB), and Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation (PEUC).
The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits held steady last week, though continuing claims rose to the highest level in three years. Jobless claim applications ticked down by 1,000 ...
The federal government has been providing additional weeks of unemployment benefits for people since 2008. [2] The most recent extension was provided by the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012, which extended unemployment benefits until the end of 2013. [2]
Public employment service, unemployment insurance and payroll tax agency: Headquarters: 722 Capitol Mall, Sacramento, California: Employees: approximately 10,000 [1] Annual budget: US$ 882 million (2018–2019) Parent agency: California Labor and Workforce Development Agency: Website: www.edd.ca.gov
The bill, introduced this week, would make California just the third state to do this, joining New York and New Jersey. Labor unions and progressive policy groups say businesses are to blame for
The California Labor and Workforce Development Agency (LWDA) is a cabinet-level agency of the government of California.The agency coordinates workforce programs by overseeing seven major departments dealing with benefit administration, enforcement of California labor laws, appellate functions related to employee benefits, workforce development, tax collection, economic development activities.