EL SEGUNDO, Calif. \u2014 The state of California is launching a new, upgraded and modernized unemployment benefits program, making it easier for customers receiving unemployment benefits to report required wages and income information while receiving benefit payments, the governor’s office announced Monday.<\/p>\n
The federal government shutdown has reached its 20th day, with workers and businesses reporting impacts in recent weeks.<\/p>\n
The announcement is part of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s strategy to make state government work better for Californians, with a key update launched to modernize the Employment Development Department’s myEDD online benefit portal.<\/p>\n
“Our new Wage Tool is another example of how we\u2019re prioritizing customer-centered improvements,” said California EDD Director Nancy Farias in a statement. “Reporting wages accurately helps Californians get paid faster and minimizes follow-up work from our staff so they can spend more time helping customers where it matters most.”<\/p>\n
The new wage reporting tool will be followed by more online enhancements to the biweekly certification questions in 2026, the governor’s office noted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL SEGUNDO, Calif. \u2014 The state of California is launching a new, upgraded and modernized unemployment benefits program,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14575,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[5997,12862,12861,387,7,9,8,13,2998],"class_list":{"0":"post-14574","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-california","8":"tag-app-local-state-politics","9":"tag-app-local-business","10":"tag-app-national-politics","11":"tag-business","12":"tag-california","13":"tag-california-headlines","14":"tag-california-news","15":"tag-politics","16":"tag-spectrum-news-staff"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}