The Employment Development Department (EDD) provides a variety 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 firm, the EDD likewise deals with the audit and collection of payroll taxes and maintains work records for more than 17 million California workers.

One of the biggest state departments, the EDD has workers located at numerous service places throughout California who provide lots of important services to millions each year, consisting of:

- Assisting companies with their labor requirements.

• Helping job seekers acquire work.
• Administering the federally-funded workforce financial investment programs for grownups, dislocated workers, and youth.
• Assisting disadvantaged recipients in ending up being self-dependent.
• Helping jobless and handicapped 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 Training Tax, and Personal Income Tax withholding).
  
  EDD Branches
  
  Administration Branch Directorate Office Equal Employment Opportunity Office Legal Office
  
  Administration Branch
  
  The Administration Branch supplies administrative assistance to the Department including service operations preparing and support services, personnel services for EDD staff members, and accounting for the Department's yearly budget.
  
  Directorate Office
  
  The Director's Office manages the instructions of the Department to guarantee that programs and services are constant with the Department's objective and goals. In addition, the Director's Office consists of:
  
  Equal Job Opportunity Office: Investigates and solves discrimination problems filed versus the Department by staff members, employers, and job candidates for work and training, and supplies specialist services on all elements of equivalent job opportunity. Legal Office: Provides legal guidance and support to the Director and Department management in connection with lawsuit, administrative hearings, contracts, legislation, and regulation.
  
  Disability Insurance Branch
  
  For 60 years, the EDD had actually administered the SDI program, which supplies partial wage replacement for California employees who are not able to work due to illness, injury, or pregnancy. Each year, the EDD pays more than $4.2 billion in Disability Insurance (DI) benefits 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 likewise have the choice of electing an alternative Voluntary Plan.
  
  Infotech Branch
  
  The Infotech Branch is accountable for planning policy development, system maintenance, support, operations, and oversight of automated solutions within the Department. The Branch provides data processing technical support and services for one of the largest information innovation environments in state government.
  
  Policy, Accountability, and Compliance Branch
  
  This branch provides crucial audit, examination, study, evaluation, and review services to the programs administered by the EDD and partnering agencies. These services aid programs operate successfully and effectively, meet federal and state statutory and regulatory requirements, and safeguard billions of dollars in financial possessions that go through the EDD each year. Also acts as the EDD's primary intermediary with state and federal elected officials and offers info, analyses, and policy guidance on legal matters to the Labor and Workforce Development Agency, the Governor's Office, and other governmental entities.
  
  Public Affairs Branch
  
  The General Public Affairs Branch is comprised of Marketing and Constituent Services, Communications, and the Web Content and Usability Group. The General Public Affairs Branch offers outreach, marketing, interactions, training that supports EDD programs and services, and manages the EDD site and social media pages.
  
  Tax Branch
  
  Among the biggest taxation firms in the country, the Tax Branch manages 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 practically $54 billion in payroll taxes, consisting of more than $42 billion in PIT, processes more than 27 million employer payroll tax documents and remittances, and keeps records for more than 16 million workers. The Branch offers a variety of payroll tax workshops and workshops, and supplies one-on-one services to companies to assist them fulfill their tax commitments.
  
  Learn more details about EDD's Payroll Taxes.
  
  Unemployment Insurance Branch
  
  Established more than 60 years back, the Unemployment Insurance (UI) program offers benefits to people who have lost their jobs through no fault of their own, are actively looking for work, are able to work, and are prepared to accept employment. Each year, the EDD pays out nearly $6 billion UI advantages and receives 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) runs one of the biggest public work services operations in the world using services at hundreds of service places statewide and linking one million task hunters with companies each year.
  
  California gets federal Wagner-Peyser funds for employment services. Job candidate services consist of job recommendation, job search workshops, placement services, and special support to individuals who are experiencing difficulty in finding work.
  
  Services to companies include matching task openings with qualified prospects and specialized recruitment projects. The Workforce Services Branch also uses CalJOBSSM, an online labor exchange system with countless job openings and the biggest pool of job applicants in California.
  
  The WSB also administers numerous statewide workforce preparation programs and efforts that concentrate on preparing grownups and youth for the manpower and building the state's economy. California distributes more than $394 million annually in federal funds to provide training services for grownups, dislocated workers, and youth through the America's Job Center of CaliforniaSM(AJCC), previously called Centers. The AJCC system is a partnership of regional, state, personal, and public entities that offer extensive and innovative employment services and resources to meet the needs of the California workforce.