The new site replaces Benefit Programs Online, or BPO, and helps fight fraud by requiring users to verify their identities using a verification code.

SAN FRANCISCO -- Users are reporting difficulty accessing their online unemployment benefit accounts on EDD.ca.gov. The login page for the California Employment Development Department's "UI Online ...

More than 3 million Californians are expected to receive lost wages assistance payments by the end of this week.

The EDD says that this period will not affect current, ongoing claims -- those who are already receiving benefits should continue to get them on time.

"To hear people who don't even know me want to reach out and help me and my little boy, it changes everything for me." After reporting on a mother and son left homeless after her EDD claim was cut ...