Labor/Employment,
Government
Feb. 22, 2023
600K won’t have to repay state for wrongful EDD payments
An agreement the state made with the Center for Workers’ Rights means $711 million in wrongfully paid benefits won’t be repaid because the notices were sent too late to the recipients.
A group of about 600,000 recipients won’t have to repay $711 million in unemployment benefits issued in error during the pandemic under a settlement signed Friday by the California Employment Development Department and the Center for Workers’ Rights.
These recipients are not alleged to have committed willful fraud, according to a statement from the agency. Instead, the department inadvertently paid them benefits they were not owed, then fa...
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