May 16, 2023

EN RESUMEN Los trabajadores a los que se les negaron los beneficios por desempleo de la era de la pandemia todavía están luchando con las deudas y el estrés: daños colaterales mientras luchan contra una agencia estatal de empleo al borde debido al fraude y un sistema de apelaciones que enfrenta un retraso ‘histórico’. Lo […]

Workers denied pandemic-era jobless benefits are still struggling with debt and stress — collateral damage as they fight a state employment agency on edge about fraud and an appeals system facing a 'historic' backlog. What happens next with these and other legal battles will help decide who pays for a multi-billion-dollar debacle three years in the making.

Many Californians who lost jobs during the pandemic have been facing ongoing battles to receive unemployment benefits. During the first few months of the COVID shutdown, the state Employment Development Department became inundated with 29 million jobless claims. Since then, it has paid out $188 billion in unemployment benefits. But as CalMatters’ investigative reporter Lauren […]

The process of writing budgets for California's state government has become a political quagmire.