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  2. California is trying again to extend unemployment benefits to ...

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    Months after Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed the proposal, lawmakers in Sacramento are trying again to extend unemployment benefits to California workers who are on strike.. Under Senate Bill 1116 ...

  3. California faces an unemployment insurance disaster ... - AOL

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    California estimates that from July 1, 2020 to June 30, 2023, improper unemployment insurance payments totaled $6.08 billion — an overpayment rate of 20.1%, more than double the allowable rate ...

  4. California labor tries again to get unemployment pay for ...

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    The data showed there were at least 56 strikes in California from 2012 to 2022, and only two lasted more than two weeks. However, at the time of the report, there were two ongoing strikes that had ...

  5. Unemployment insurance in the United States - Wikipedia

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    t. e. Unemployment insurance in the United States, colloquially referred to as unemployment benefits, refers to social insurance programs which replace a portion of wages for individuals during unemployment. The first unemployment insurance program in the U.S. was created in Wisconsin in 1932, and the federal Social Security Act of 1935 created ...

  6. Employment Development Department - Wikipedia

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    In California, the Employment Development Department ( EDD) is a department of the state government that administers Unemployment Insurance (UI), Disability Insurance (DI), and Paid Family Leave (PFL) programs. The department also provides employment service programs and collects the state's labor market information and employment data.

  7. Unemployment benefits - Wikipedia

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    Economics. Unemployment benefits, also called unemployment insurance, unemployment payment, unemployment compensation, or simply unemployment, are payments made by authorized bodies to unemployed people. In the United States, benefits are funded by a compulsory governmental insurance system, not taxes on individual citizens.

  8. California in a jam after borrowing billions to pay ... - AOL

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    In 2022, California workers stayed on unemployment aid for an average of 18.1 weeks, compared with 14.5 weeks nationally, according to a study by the Department of Labor's former lead actuary ...

  9. California overpaid as much as $55B in unemployment claims ...

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    Shutterstock. The state’s unemployment agency potentially overpaid an estimated $55 billion in recent years to people who may not have been eligible for jobless benefits, a California state ...