The Employment Development Department (EDD) provides a wide range of services to countless Californians under Unemployment Insurance (UI), State Disability Insurance (SDI), labor force financial investment (Jobs and Training), and Labor Market Information programs. As the state's largest tax collection company, the EDD also handles the audit and collection of payroll taxes and preserves employment records for more than 17 million California employees.

One of the biggest state departments, the EDD has staff members located at numerous service areas throughout California who offer many crucial services to millions each year, consisting of:

- Assisting employers with their labor needs.

• Helping job hunters obtain work.
• Administering the federally-funded workforce investment programs for grownups, dislocated workers, and youth.
• Assisting disadvantaged recipients in becoming self-dependent.
• Helping jobless and disabled workers 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 Training Tax, and Personal Income Tax withholding).
  
  EDD Branches
  
  Administration Branch Directorate Office Equal Employment Opportunity Office Legal Office
  
  Administration Branch
  
  The Administration Branch offers administrative assistance to the Department consisting of business operations planning and assistance services, personnel services for EDD staff members, and accounting for the Department's annual budget.
  
  Directorate Office
  
  The Director's Office manages the direction of the Department to guarantee that programs and job services are constant with the Department's mission and objectives. In addition, the Director's Office consists of:
  
  Equal Job Opportunity Office: Investigates and deals with discrimination problems filed against the Department by employees, companies, and applicants for employment and training, and provides expert services on all aspects of equivalent work chance. 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 actually administered the SDI program, which provides partial wage replacement for California workers who are unable to work due to disease, injury, or pregnancy. Each year, the EDD pays out more than $4.2 billion in Disability Insurance (DI) advantages and receives and processes more than 927,000 claims. The DI Branch also administers the Paid Family Leave program and DI Elective Coverage program for self-employed people. Employers likewise have the option of electing an alternative Voluntary Plan.
  
  Information Technology Branch
  
  The Infotech Branch is accountable for preparing policy advancement, system maintenance, assistance, operations, and oversight of automated options within the Department. The Branch provides data processing technical assistance and services for among the biggest details environments in state government.
  
  Policy, Accountability, and Compliance Branch
  
  This branch offers key audit, investigation, study, assessment, and evaluation services to the programs administered by the EDD and partnering firms. These services aid programs run efficiently and efficiently, meet federal and state statutory and regulative requirements, and secure billions of dollars in monetary properties that go through the EDD every year. Also works as the EDD's main intermediary with state and federal chosen authorities and offers details, analyses, and policy assistance on legislative matters to the Labor and Workforce Development Agency, the Governor's Office, and other governmental entities.
  
  Public Affairs Branch
  
  The Public Affairs Branch is comprised of Marketing and Constituent Services, Communications, and the Web Content and Usability Group. The Public Affairs Branch supplies outreach, marketing, communications, training that supports EDD programs and services, and handles the EDD site and social media pages.
  
  Tax Branch
  
  One of the largest tax collection firms in the nation, the Tax Branch deals with all administrative, education, customer care, 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 almost $54 billion in payroll taxes, consisting of more than $42 billion in PIT, processes more than 27 million company payroll tax documents and remittances, and maintains records for more than 16 million employees. The Branch uses a variety of payroll tax seminars and workshops, and provides one-on-one services to companies to assist them satisfy their tax responsibilities.
  
  Find out more details about EDD's Payroll Taxes.
  
  Unemployment Insurance Branch
  
  Established more than 60 years earlier, the Unemployment Insurance (UI) program supplies benefits to individuals who have actually lost their tasks through no fault of their own, are actively looking for work, have the ability to work, and want to accept work. Each year, the EDD pays out nearly $6 billion UI advantages and gets and processes more than 2 million new claims. The program is funded by mandated employer contributions. Additional services supplied under the UI program consist of 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 providing services at numerous service places statewide and linking one million job seekers with companies each year.
  
  California gets federal Wagner-Peyser funds for employment services. Job hunter services consist of job referral, job search workshops, placement services, and unique assistance to people who are experiencing trouble in finding work.
  
  Services to employers include matching task openings with qualified candidates and specialized recruitment projects. The Workforce Services Branch also provides CalJOBSSM, an online labor exchange system with countless task openings and the largest swimming pool of task applicants in California.
  
  The WSB also administers numerous statewide labor force preparation programs and initiatives that focus on preparing grownups and youth for the manpower and developing the state's economy. California distributes more than $394 million each year in federal funds to supply training services for adults, dislocated workers, and youth through the America's Job Center of CaliforniaSM(AJCC), formerly known as One-Stop Career Centers. The AJCC system is a cooperation of local, state, private, and public entities that supply comprehensive and innovative employment services and resources to meet the needs of the California labor force.