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The bank, which has contracted with the state Employment Development Department to issue debit cards containing unemployment benefits, issued the warning in a letter to California legislators. The EDD also has not acted swiftly enough on warnings from March 2019 that it was exposing claimants’ Social Security numbers to fraud by sending them in the mail, according to the state auditor, who said Washington and Texas are among states that do not include full numbers in mail. Advertisement In addition, legislators are questioning why the EDD canceled a contract five years ago with a firm that...

California dropped its guard before it was hit with $2 billion in unemployment fraud Patrick McGreevy © (Associated Press) Well before the pandemic, California failed to take steps to head off fraud in the state's unemployment benefit system, which some estimate is $2 billion and rising. (Associated Press) As California grapples with staggering levels of unemployment benefit fraud — $2 billion or more by one estimate — lawmakers and security experts say the state let its guard down well before the COVID-19 pandemic began in March, failing to keep up with what other stat...

SACRAMENTO —  As California grapples with staggering levels of unemployment benefit fraud — $2 billion or more by one estimate — lawmakers and security experts say the state let its guard down well before the COVID-19 pandemic began in March, failing to keep up with what other states have done to flag bogus claims. Now, faced with what officials describe as the largest fraud scheme against taxpayers in state history, the state Employment Development Department is scrambling to fix past mistakes as prosecutors, government auditors and legislators say their early warnings about vulnera...

It's a story you'll only see on ABC7 News: More local charges are likely to be filed in an inmate unemployment benefits scam sweeping the country. "Well what? What? All these months later? That amount of money could be thousands of dollars," said Walters. It's money Walters has already spent on food and housing. "I would have made different choices over the last six months, of not buying steaks. I would've bought hot dogs," she said. Problems began last April when gig workers and the self-employed first applied for unemployment. Benefits were supposed to be based on their net income in 2019....

Former California EDD worker faked being Dianne Feinstein in scamming jobless benefits, sources say [Los Angeles Times] Federal authorities have filed charges in two newly uncovered conspiracies to cheat California’s pandemic unemployment benefits system, including one by a former Employment Development Department employee who was able to scam more than $200,000, including one claim that used the name of U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein. Authorities Thursday said that former EDD employee Andrea M. Gervais allegedly participated in a mail fraud conspiracy in which she filed more than 100 false p...