The Employment Development Department (EDD) offers 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 biggest tax collection agency, the EDD also handles the audit and collection of payroll taxes and maintains employment records for more than 17 million California workers.

One of the largest state departments, the EDD has staff members located at hundreds of service areas throughout California who offer lots of essential services to millions each year, consisting of:

- Assisting companies with their labor requirements.

• Helping task applicants get employment.
• Administering the federally-funded workforce investment programs for grownups, dislocated workers, and youth.
• Assisting disadvantaged recipients in becoming self-dependent.
• Helping unemployed and handicapped workers through the administration of the UI and SDI programs.
• Supporting state activities and benefit programs by gathering 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 provides administrative assistance to the Department consisting of service operations planning and support services, personnel services for EDD employees, and accounting for the Department's annual budget.
  
  Directorate Office
  
  The Director's Office orchestrates the instructions of the Department to ensure that programs and services follow the Department's objective and objectives. In addition, the Director's Office consists of:
  
  Equal Employment Opportunity Office: Investigates and solves discrimination complaints submitted against the Department by staff members, companies, and candidates for employment and training, and offers consultant services on all elements of equivalent work opportunity. Legal Office: Provides legal suggestions and support to the Director and Department management in connection with court cases, administrative hearings, agreements, legislation, and policy.
  
  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 illness, injury, or pregnancy. Each year, the EDD pays more than $4.2 billion in Disability Insurance (DI) advantages and gets 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 individuals. Employers also have the alternative of choosing an alternative Voluntary Plan.
  
  Infotech Branch
  
  The Information Technology Branch is accountable for planning policy advancement, system maintenance, assistance, operations, and oversight of automated options within the Department. The Branch supplies information processing technical support and services for among the biggest information innovation environments in state government.
  
  Policy, Accountability, and Compliance Branch
  
  This branch supplies key audit, investigation, survey, evaluation, and review services to the programs administered by the EDD and partnering companies. These services assistance programs operate efficiently and effectively, fulfill federal and state statutory and regulatory requirements, and safeguard billions of dollars in monetary possessions that travel through the EDD yearly. Also serves as the EDD's primary intermediary with state and federal chosen officials and provides 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 General Public Affairs Branch provides outreach, marketing, communications, training that supports EDD programs and services, and handles the EDD site and social networks pages.
  
  Tax Branch
  
  Among the largest taxation agencies in the country, the Tax Branch deals with all administrative, employment education, client service, and enforcement functions for the audit and collection of UI, DI, Employment Training Tax, and Personal Income Tax (PIT) withholding. Each year, the EDD gathers nearly $54 billion in payroll taxes, consisting of more than $42 billion in PIT, processes more than 27 million company payroll tax files and remittances, and preserves records for more than 16 million workers. The Branch offers a variety of payroll tax seminars and workshops, and offers individually services to companies to help them fulfill their tax commitments.
  
  Find out more details about EDD's Payroll Taxes.
  
  Unemployment Insurance Branch
  
  Established more than 60 years earlier, the Unemployment Insurance (UI) program provides benefits to people who have lost their tasks through no fault of their own, are actively seeking work, have the ability to work, and are prepared 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 company contributions. Additional services offered under the UI program consist of Work Sharing, Disaster Unemployment Assistance, and Trade Adjustment Assistance.
  
  Workforce Services Branch
  
  The Workforce Services Branch (WSB) runs among the biggest public work services operations in the world providing services at numerous service locations statewide and connecting one million job candidates with employers each year.
  
  California gets federal Wagner-Peyser funds for employment services. Job applicant services include task referral, job search workshops, positioning services, and special assistance to people who are experiencing trouble in finding work.
  
  Services to companies include matching task openings with qualified candidates and specialized recruitment projects. The Workforce Services Branch also offers CalJOBSSM, an online labor exchange system with countless task openings and the biggest swimming pool of task seekers in California.
  
  The WSB likewise administers several statewide workforce preparation programs and efforts that focus on preparing grownups and youth for the manpower and developing the state's economy. California distributes more than $394 million every year in federal funds to provide training services for adults, workers, and youth through the America's Job Center of CaliforniaSM(AJCC), formerly known as One-Stop Career Centers. The AJCC system is a partnership of local, state, personal, and public entities that supply comprehensive and innovative employment services and resources to fulfill the needs of the California workforce.