Workers say California EDD failed to notify them that their eligibility was denied and threatened to seize assets if they didn’t repay benefits.

The agency has since investigated allegations of fraud aggressively and recovered about $6 billion of those losses, the EDD website says. Prosecutors said Campbell and Pasley submitted claims on ...

However, Okamura, Din and other claimants have said that EDD’s failure to properly notify them of denial or overpayment decisions has caused widespread confusion and financial hardship.