Unemployment Insurance System – California

Audit of EDD ordered over thousands of denied unemployment claims, By Marc Lifsher, March 12, 2014, Los Angeles Times: “State lawmakers on Wednesday ordered a formal audit of the troubled Employment Development Department and how it may have botched the handling of thousands of unemployment insurance claims. By a unanimous vote, a legislative committee directed the state auditor to find out the reasons that administrative judges are overturning more than half of EDD caseworkers’ initial denials of claims…”