The Employment Development Department (EDD) offers a wide range of services to countless Californians under Unemployment Insurance (UI), State Disability Insurance (SDI), labor force investment (Jobs and Training), and Labor employment Market Information programs. As the state’s biggest taxation agency, the EDD likewise handles the audit and collection of payroll taxes and maintains employment records for more than 17 million California workers.

One of the biggest state departments, the EDD has workers situated at hundreds of service places throughout California who offer numerous crucial services to millions each year, including:

- Assisting employers with their labor needs.

• Helping task candidates obtain employment.
• Administering the federally-funded labor force investment programs for adults, dislocated employees, employment and youth.
• Assisting disadvantaged recipients in ending up being self-dependent.
• Helping unemployed and disabled employees through the administration of the UI and SDI programs.
• Supporting state activities and benefit programs by collecting and administering employment-related taxes (UI, SDI, employment Employment Training Tax, and Personal Income Tax withholding).
  
  EDD Branches
  
  Administration Branch Directorate Office Equal Job Opportunity Office Legal Office
  
  Administration Branch
  
  The Administration Branch offers administrative assistance to the Department consisting of company operations preparing and support services, personnel services for EDD staff members, and accounting for the Department’s annual spending plan.
  
  Directorate Office
  
  The Director’s Office orchestrates the instructions of the Department to guarantee that programs and services are consistent with the Department’s mission and objectives. In addition, the Director’s Office includes:
  
  Equal Job Opportunity Office: Investigates and employment resolves discrimination problems submitted against the Department by staff members, companies, and applicants for employment and training, and provides consultant services on all aspects of equivalent employment opportunity. Legal Office: Provides legal advice and support to the Director and Department management in connection with court cases, administrative hearings, contracts, legislation, and guideline.
  
  Disability Insurance Branch
  
  For 60 years, the EDD had administered the SDI program, which supplies partial wage replacement for California employees who are unable to work due to health problem, injury, or pregnancy. Each year, the EDD pays more than $4.2 billion in Disability Insurance (DI) benefits and gets and employment processes more than 927,000 claims. The DI Branch likewise administers the Paid Family and DI Elective Coverage program for self-employed people. Employers also have the choice of electing an alternative Voluntary Plan.
  
  Infotech Branch
  
  The Infotech Branch is accountable for preparing policy advancement, system maintenance, support, operations, and oversight of automated solutions within the Department. The Branch offers data processing technical support and services for among the largest information innovation environments in state federal government.
  
  Policy, Accountability, and Compliance Branch
  
  This branch offers key audit, examination, survey, assessment, and review services to the programs administered by the EDD and partnering companies. These services aid programs operate effectively and efficiently, satisfy federal and state statutory and regulative requirements, and protect billions of dollars in monetary possessions that travel through the EDD each year. Also acts as the EDD’s main liaison with state and federal chosen officials and supplies info, analyses, and policy assistance on legislative matters to the Labor employment and Workforce Development Agency, the Governor’s Office, and other governmental entities.
  
  Public Affairs Branch
  
  The Public Affairs Branch is consisted of Marketing and employment Constituent Services, Communications, and the Web Content and Usability Group. The Public Affairs Branch offers outreach, marketing, communications, training that supports EDD programs and services, and handles the EDD website and social media pages.
  
  Tax Branch
  
  Among the largest tax collection agencies in the nation, the Tax Branch manages all administrative, education, customer support, and enforcement functions for the audit and collection of UI, DI, Employment Training Tax, and Personal Income Tax (PIT) withholding. Each year, the EDD collects practically $54 billion in payroll taxes, including more than $42 billion in PIT, processes more than 27 million company payroll tax files and remittances, and maintains records for more than 16 million workers. The Branch offers a range of payroll tax workshops and workshops, and offers individually services to employers to assist them satisfy their tax obligations.
  
  Find out more information about EDD’s Payroll Taxes.
  
  Unemployment Insurance Branch
  
  Established more than 60 years earlier, the Unemployment Insurance (UI) program provides advantages to individuals who have actually lost their tasks through no fault of their own, are actively looking for work, are able to work, and want to accept work. Each year, the EDD pays almost $6 billion UI advantages and gets and processes more than 2 million brand-new claims. The program is moneyed by mandated company contributions. Additional services supplied under the UI program include Work Sharing, Disaster Unemployment Assistance, and Trade Adjustment Assistance.
  
  Workforce Services Branch
  
  The Workforce Services Branch (WSB) operates one of the biggest public employment services operations worldwide using services at hundreds of service areas statewide and linking one million job applicants with companies each year.
  
  California receives federal Wagner-Peyser funds for work services. Job candidate services consist of job recommendation, task search workshops, positioning services, and unique support to people who are experiencing problem in finding work.
  
  Services to employers consist of matching job openings with qualified candidates and specialized recruitment projects. The Workforce Services Branch likewise offers CalJOBSSM, an online labor exchange system with countless task openings and the largest swimming pool of job hunters in California.
  
  The WSB also administers several statewide labor force preparation programs and efforts that focus on preparing adults and youth for the manpower and building the state’s economy. California distributes more than $394 million every year in federal funds to offer training services for grownups, dislocated workers, and youth through the America’s Job Center of CaliforniaSM(AJCC), formerly referred to as One-Stop Career Centers. The AJCC system is a cooperation of local, state, personal, and public entities that supply detailed and innovative employment services and resources to satisfy the needs of the California workforce.