How long after winning an EDD appeal hearing until benefits are paid?

In my experience, after winning my appeal last year, it took about 7-10 business days for the payments to hit my Money Network card. The judge's decision gets sent to EDD within 2-3 business days, then EDD has to process it and remove the disqualification from your claim. They don't pay interest, unfortunately, but they will pay all weeks you certified for that were held due to the disqualification. Make sure you've been certifying for all weeks even while waiting for your appeal!

congrats on the hearing! mine took like 3 weeks to get paid after i won... super annoying

It really varies. I won my appeal in January and it took 4 WEEKS for money to arrive!! My neighbor won his and got paid in 6 days. No consistency with EDD at all lol. Did the judge make a decision at the hearing or are they mailing it to you? That makes a difference.

DONT GET YOUR HOPES UP!!! EDD is THE WORST at processing appeal payments! I won my appeal in February but EDD systems still showed me as disqualified for TWO MONTHS after! Had to call literally 84 TIMES to finally get someone to manually fix it in their system! The judge has NO CONTROL over how fast EDD actually implements their decision. The whole system is BROKEN!!!

I had a similar situation last quarter and was really worried about how long it would take to get paid after winning. I couldn't get through to EDD on the phone at all - kept getting the "we're experiencing high call volume" message for days. I finally used a service called Claimyr (claimyr.com) that got me connected to an EDD rep within about 20 minutes. They have a video demo at https://youtu.be/JmuwXR7HA10?si=TSwYbu_GOwYzt9km that shows how it works. The rep I spoke with was able to see my appeal decision in their system and manually release my payments while I was on the phone. Saved me weeks of waiting!

my sister went thru this and got paid 2 week after her letter came. she said the letter took like 2 weeks to arrive after the hearing tho so it was like a month total. make sure ur address is up to date with them!!!

Just to add some technical details here - the official EDD Appeals Division process works like this: 1. Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) makes a decision (usually within 1-2 weeks of hearing) 2. Decision letter is mailed to all parties 3. If favorable, the ALJ's office sends the decision to EDD's Benefit Determination Department 4. EDD removes the disqualification code from your claim 5. Payment processing begins for all eligible weeks The variation in payment timing people experience is usually in steps 3-4. Sometimes it happens automatically within days, other times it requires manual intervention by an EDD representative. If you don't see payment status change to "paid" within 14 days of receiving your favorable decision, I recommend calling the EDD Appeals Division directly at (800) 300-5616 - this is different from the regular EDD number and often has shorter wait times.

I just remembered something important - make sure you check if they put you on "conditional payment" while waiting for your appeal! My friend was on conditional payment and got money during his appeal process, then when he won they just removed the conditional status. Did they offer you that option??

Just wanted to follow up on my earlier comment - once you do receive payment, make sure to check that they paid ALL weeks correctly. Sometimes EDD only processes partial payments after appeals. Go through your payment history in UI Online and verify each week shows as paid. If any weeks are missing, you'll need to call and have them manually reprocess those specific weeks.