EDD payment stuck on pending after midnight certification - job search workshop impact?

The pending status after certification has nothing to do with your scheduled job search workshop. Those workshops only affect your eligibility if you miss them without good cause. What's probably happening is that EDD is doing their quarterly review of claims right now (we're at the start of a new quarter in 2025). A lot of payments are delayed by 3-5 days during these review periods. I certified at 6am Sunday and mine is still pending too.

mine went from pending to paid in like 5 mins yesterday but my roomate is still stuck on pending too and she certified right after me... EDD is so random sometimes lol

Pending payments this week are likely related to system maintenance EDD announced for their quarterly processing. From my experience, there's a specific pattern to these delays: 1. Claims certified between midnight and 3am often get caught in processing queues 2. Recent changes to your claim information can trigger review flags 3. First payment after a quarterly review typically takes longer Your job search workshop won't affect current payments - that's a separate compliance requirement. I'd recommend waiting until Thursday before trying to contact EDD about the pending status. About 75% of these delayed payments resolve automatically by then.

If your payment is stuck on pending for more than 3 days, you really need to call EDD directly. I went through this last month and wasted 2 weeks waiting for it to fix itself. When I finally got through to a rep, they fixed it in 5 minutes - there was a flag on my account that I couldn't see online! I used Claimyr to get through to an EDD agent after being hung up on multiple times. Their service connected me to EDD in about 20 minutes instead of spending all day redialing. They have a demo video showing how it works here: https://youtu.be/JmuwXR7HA10?si=TSwYbu_GOwYzt9km and their website is claimyr.com. Totally worth it to get my pending payment resolved quickly.

EVERYONE IS WRONG HERE!!! the pending issue IS related to the job search workshop!!! I had the EXACT same thing happen in January. My payments got stuck on pending the week before my scheduled workshop. EDD rep told me they sometimes put a temporary hold on accounts with upcoming mandatory appointments. Its their way of MAKING SURE you attend the stupid workshop.

did u check ur inbox on ui online? sometimes they need more info but dont tell u except in a message there

This happens to me EVERY TIME I certify at midnight! The system gets overloaded with everyone certifying at the same time. I started waiting until Sunday afternoon to certify and haven't had a pending issue since. Weird but it works for me!

UPDATE: My payment just switched from pending to paid this morning! Looks like it was just a processing delay like some of you mentioned. Thanks for all the advice and reassurance. I'll still attend my job search workshop next week of course.