can be eliminated or mitigated through an appeal process.
An overpayment of benefits occurs when the Employment Development Department (EDD) wants you to pay back the benefits that you collected. But these usually come with penalties and interest and are subject to false statement weeks. Before you comply and make these payments to the EDD, make sure you speak with our counsel at Pershing Square Law Firm first. As experienced EDD overpayment lawyers in California, we’re very familiar with this issue and how the EDD may actually be wrong while you’re in the right.
A significant number of the overpayments and penalties that the EDD issues each year are unjustified. But the process of appealing overpayments, especially old ones, can be complicated, especially if you try to do it on your own and don’t have any previous legal experience. Additionally, the appeals process often requires attention to specific details and special preparation. It is advisable to hire one of our trained and experienced unemployment overpayment lawyers to help you take on the headaches of the appeals process. We’re ready to challenge the overpayment so that you can avoid having to pay any amount that could be mitigated. We can help ensure that the money that’s rightfully yours stays in your bank account where it belongs.
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“For a nominal fee, which was much better than I expected, he reduced my payroll tax assessment and saved me $53,000. They have a set fee so I didn’t have to worry about attorney’s fees building up.”
“They are an exceptional law firm. When all else failed I found support.”
“They told me they’d take my case and hopefully get a good result, and boy did they ever … if I could give them 10 stars I would.”
As experienced EDD overpayment lawyers, we encountered a large variety of overpayment cases. Owing money to the EDD can be disruptive, and at times devastating to your personal life. It can lead to a court judgment against you that would seriously hurt your credit score for years, you may be subject to aggressive collection efforts by the EDD, such as interception of your tax return checks, wage garnishments and a levy on your bank account. You may also become unable to collect benefits when you need them the most. Worse yet, the annual interest is staggering, so failing to appeal may leave you with a high-interest debt with no option other than repayment. Here are some of the common reasons people incur overpayments:
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