A 23-year-old Houston woman pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud for stealing money reserved for prepaid debit cards used to provide unemployment benefits in California and other places.

Nor is this the first-time auditors have uncovered widespread ineligibility in California’s unemployment insurance system. During the Covid shutdowns, the state chose to process unemployment claims ...

Initial filings for unemployment benefits in California rose last week compared with the week prior, the U.S. Department of Labor said Thursday. New jobless claims, a proxy for layoffs ...

A woman was sentenced in an unemployment fraud case in California, prosecutors said ... November at a casino after Russo used a players card linked to a stolen identity, according to a court ...

Initial filings for unemployment benefits in California dropped last week compared with the week prior, the U.S. Department of Labor said Thursday. New jobless claims, a proxy for layoffs ...

A California woman ... and credit card statements in the names of stolen identities. They also had numerous pieces of (mail from the state unemployment insurance agency) addressed to different ...