Do not move to California.
And if you are already here, under a Democrat Governor and Democrat 'super majority' in the State Legislature, beware of this unjust mean sloppy careless illogical arrogant unjust Agency !!
The recent State audit says they don't answer their phones. Also their website is not reliable if you want to open a unemployment file.
And the office at 2450 South Bascom, San Jose, Ca. that says "EDD Office" on the front door, really is not a EDD staffed office , but a 'work force' bunch of bad advice ("you don't have to file right away, you can file up to 18 months.") incompetents. Beware !! Such public fraud and deception.
The EDD will cut you benefits during a year of this 'great recession' with still very high true unemployment "because you have not worked enough this year" !! Hell, you are unemployed and looking for work, what do they expect that everyone can find a job in California during this 'great recession' ?!
So cruel by this once great , once proud State.
Since many people, maybe 20-30%, don't even apply for Unemployment Insurance , after waiting the first dead week, why is this agency so tight and slow, sometimes 2 months or more late with checks that are maximum of $425/wk, risking people being kicked out of apartments and onto the street?! Isn't it bad enough that so many of us are out of work because of Wall Street 'to big to fail' bankers, fraudulent but unprosecuted mortgage lenders, and lying unprosecuted rating companies ?!
When will California start to improve after the recent low of the terrible Enron deregulation disaster that bankrupted the state and finally exposed the massive corruption and hypocrisy of State government in Sacramento, where pledging public office for the public good has been long forgotten?
