From time to bond with your newborn, support to find a job, resources to focus on your recovery after an illness or injury, or the guidance and support to manage a successful business in California, we have a resource that can help.
In 2024, we successfully launched direct deposit and transitioned our prepaid debit card program to Money Network. Unemployment customers can now apply online with applications translated into the top eight most-commonly spoken languages in the State. For information about more customer improvements, visit EDDNext.
We are making great strides to meet our customers where they work, live, and gather. This includes in-person education and community engagement across the State. We have participated in over 10 community-based events so far this year – attended by over 139,000 Californians – who got an opportunity to see and talk to an EDD representative about our programs and services where they live.
We’re actively collaborating with ethnic media outlets to speak directly to their diverse audiences and spread awareness of our benefit programs and the changes taking place here at the EDD. Through these efforts we’ve reached nearly 16 million people across California’s diverse landscape. We’ve made great progress through Chinese, Vietnamese, and Filipino media in addition to millions of impressions across focused Black and African American media channels.
We’re increasing our communications to the nearly 250,000 people who subscribe to the Department’s social media channels. This includes a new video about the breadth of EDD programs and services.
We appreciate your support in helping us spread the word about how valuable our programs and resources are, and we’re looking forward to more updates as our efforts progress.
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