CBS News California analyzed a decade of state audits and found that lawmakers failed to enact three out of every four state ...

California has given away at least $20 billion to criminals in the form of fraudulent unemployment benefits, state officials said Monday, confirming a number smaller than originally feared but one ...

An unemployment claim made in the name of convicted murderer Scott Peterson is just one of many in what a California prosecutor describes as one of the biggest frauds in the state’s history.

During the pandemic and the years that followed, states that successfully adopted innovative technology to combat fraud saved ...

California’s troubled Employment Development Department squandered millions on cell phone plans for devices that were shoved in closets and left unused, according to an investigation released Friday.

Companies owned by President Donald Trump have declared bankruptcy six times, a reminder that a corporation that defaults on repaying money it has borrowed is often forced into bankruptcy court.

California’s unemployment agency kept paying cellphone bills for four and a half years without checking whether its workers were actually using the devices. That’s how it racked up $4.6 million in ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. (AP) — Unemployment fraud in the U.S. has ...

Nicholas Overton, 32, admitted to submitting roughly 90 fraudulent unemployment insurance claims across 20 states and ...