And if you have PUA involved, it can make it more confusing," said Erica Looney, Division Chief of Unemployment Insurance Policy, Procedure, and Automation at the EDD.

Benefits will end abruptly on Dec. 26 for workers getting Pandemic Unemployment Assistance, and a 13-week extension of benefits - the lifelines known as "PUA" and "PEUC." ...

What happens now? Any weeks of benefits collected on a regular unemployment insurance claim of a FED-ED (emergency benefits) claim can be deducted from a PUA claim, EDD advises.

EDD managed the California program, and at first often disregarded the usual safeguards that screened potential beneficiaries. Loree Levy, EDD spokeswoman, said PUA helped support workers who ...

California's embattled Employment Development Department (EDD) says they have seen yet another wave of fraud attempts. This time, again, hitting unemployment claims.

Thousands of Californians with federal EDD claims are seeing they have a large Maximum Benefit Amount. Why they probably won’t be getting that money.

Initially, federal law only required EDD to get income substantiation from PUA recipients when they wished to collect more in weekly benefits than the minimum of $167.

Initially, federal law only required EDD to get income substantiation from PUA recipients when they wished to collect more in weekly benefits than the minimum of $167.