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

One of the largest state departments, the EDD has employees situated at numerous service locations throughout California who supply numerous important services to millions each year, including:

- Assisting companies with their labor needs.

• Helping task applicants obtain employment.
• Administering the federally-funded workforce financial investment programs for grownups, dislocated employees, and youth.
• Assisting disadvantaged recipients in becoming self-dependent.
• Helping jobless and disabled employees through the administration of the UI and SDI programs.
• Supporting state activities and advantage 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 Job Opportunity Office Legal Office
  
  Administration Branch
  
  The Administration Branch offers administrative assistance to the Department including organization operations preparing and support services, human resource services for EDD workers, and accounting for the Department's yearly budget plan.
  
  Directorate Office
  
  The Director's Office manages the direction of the Department to ensure that programs and services are constant with the Department's objective and goals. In addition, the Director's Office includes:
  
  Equal Employment Opportunity Office: Investigates and solves discrimination complaints submitted versus the Department by employees, employers, and applicants for work and training, and supplies expert services on all elements of equal employment chance. Legal Office: Provides legal advice and assistance to the Director and Department management in connection with lawsuit, administrative hearings, agreements, legislation, and policy.
  
  Disability Insurance Branch
  
  For 60 years, the EDD had 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 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 also have the option of electing an alternative Voluntary Plan.
  
  Information Technology Branch
  
  The Information Technology Branch is accountable for preparing policy advancement, system maintenance, support, operations, and oversight of automated services within the Department. The Branch supplies information processing technical assistance and services for employment among the biggest infotech environments in state federal government.
  
  Policy, Accountability, and Compliance Branch
  
  This branch provides key audit, investigation, survey, evaluation, and employment review services to the programs administered by the EDD and partnering agencies. These services assistance programs operate effectively and efficiently, satisfy federal and state statutory and regulatory requirements, and protect billions of dollars in financial properties that go through the EDD every year. Also functions as the EDD's primary intermediary with state and federal elected 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 General Public Affairs Branch is made up of Marketing and Constituent Services, Communications, and the Web Content and Usability Group. The General Public Affairs Branch offers outreach, marketing, communications, training that supports EDD programs and services, and manages the EDD website and social media pages.
  
  Tax Branch
  
  Among the largest taxation 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 gathers almost $54 billion in payroll taxes, including 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 employees. The Branch uses a variety of payroll tax seminars and workshops, and offers individually services to companies to assist them satisfy their tax commitments.
  
  Discover more info about EDD's Payroll Taxes.
  
  Unemployment Insurance Branch
  
  Established more than 60 years back, the Unemployment Insurance (UI) program provides 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 are ready to accept employment. Each year, the EDD pays out almost $6 billion UI benefits and gets and processes more than 2 million new claims. The program is moneyed by mandated employer contributions. Additional services offered under the UI program consist of Work Sharing, Disaster Unemployment Assistance, and Trade Adjustment Assistance.
  
  Workforce Branch
  
  The Workforce Services Branch (WSB) runs among the largest public employment services operations in the world using services at hundreds of service areas statewide and linking one million task hunters with companies each year.
  
  California receives federal Wagner-Peyser funds for work services. Job candidate services consist of task recommendation, employment task search workshops, employment positioning services, and special assistance to individuals who are experiencing problem in finding work.
  
  Services to companies consist of matching job openings with certified candidates 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 candidates in California.
  
  The WSB also administers several statewide workforce preparation programs and efforts that focus on preparing adults and employment youth for the workforce and developing the state's economy. California disperses more than $394 million annually in federal funds to offer training services for adults, dislocated employees, and youth through the America's Job Center of CaliforniaSM(AJCC), previously referred to as One-Stop Career Centers. The AJCC system is a collaboration of local, state, personal, and public entities that supply detailed and innovative employment services and resources to satisfy the needs of the California labor force.