How Californias COVID unemployment system failed its . . . - CalMatters Emails and emergency meeting notes detail how the long-troubled California Employment Development Department became the focal point — and then the punching bag — for state efforts to stave off economic collapse while contending with a historic wave of fraud
What California Could Have Done with the $30 Billion Lost by the EDD Take, for example, the loss to fraud of $30 billion by the California Employment Development Department While estimates of the actual amount – an exact amount will never be known – range from $12 billion to more than $40 billion, experts in the field tend to coalesce around the $30 billion figure
Our Response to Fraud - Employment Development Department Each region in California has a contact person at EDD to help with local cases Out-of-state law enforcement agencies can also request information from us to investigate and prosecute fraud in their own areas
Analysis: California EDD fraud at $32. 6 billion and counting Newsom also touts the improvements made inside EDD - many as a result of pressure from lawmakers and two simultaneous state audits in 2020 - and says that California leads the way in the reform