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

Among the biggest state departments, the EDD has employees situated at numerous service areas throughout California who offer numerous important services to millions each year, including:

- Assisting companies with their labor requirements.

Helping task candidates obtain employment.
Administering the federally-funded workforce investment programs for adults, dislocated workers, and youth.
Assisting disadvantaged receivers in ending up being self-sufficient.
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 provides administrative assistance to the Department including business operations planning and support services, human resource services for EDD employees, and accounting for the Department's yearly budget plan.

Directorate Office

The Director's Office orchestrates the direction of the Department to make sure that programs and services follow the Department's objective and goals. In addition, the Director's Office includes:

Equal Job Opportunity Office: Investigates and solves discrimination complaints submitted against the Department by staff members, employers, and candidates for employment and training, and provides expert services on all elements of equal job opportunity. Legal Office: Provides legal advice and assistance to the Director and Department management in connection with lawsuit, administrative hearings, contracts, legislation, and guideline.

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 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 individuals. Employers likewise have the alternative of choosing an alternative Voluntary Plan.

Infotech Branch

The Infotech Branch is accountable for planning policy advancement, system maintenance, assistance, operations, and oversight of automated services within the Department. The Branch supplies data processing technical support and services for one of the biggest details innovation environments in state federal government.

Policy, Accountability, and Compliance Branch

This branch offers crucial audit, examination, study, examination, and review services to the programs administered by the EDD and partnering agencies. These services help programs run efficiently and effectively, fulfill federal and state statutory and regulative requirements, and protect billions of dollars in monetary assets that travel through the EDD annually. Also functions as the EDD's primary intermediary with state and federal chosen authorities and offers information, analyses, and policy guidance 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 and Constituent Services, Communications, and the Web Content and Usability Group. The General Public Affairs Branch supplies outreach, marketing, communications, training that supports EDD programs and services, and manages the EDD website and social networks pages.

Tax Branch

One of the biggest taxation agencies 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 gathers almost $54 billion in payroll taxes, including more than $42 billion in PIT, processes more than 27 million employer payroll tax documents and remittances, and preserves records for more than 16 million workers. The Branch uses a variety of payroll tax workshops and workshops, and supplies individually services to employers to help them fulfill their tax obligations.

Find out more information about EDD's Payroll Taxes.

Unemployment Insurance Branch

Established more than 60 years ago, the Unemployment Insurance (UI) program supplies advantages to people who have actually lost their jobs through no fault of their own, are actively looking for work, are able to work, and are prepared to accept work. Each year, the EDD pays almost $6 billion UI advantages and gets and processes more than 2 million new claims. The program is moneyed 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) operates among the biggest public work services operations in the world offering services at numerous service locations statewide and connecting one million job seekers with employers each year.

California gets federal Wagner-Peyser funds for work services. Job hunter services include task recommendation, job search workshops, placement services, and special help to people who are experiencing trouble in finding work.

Services to employers include matching job openings with qualified prospects and specialized recruitment projects. The Workforce Services Branch likewise provides CalJOBSSM, an online labor exchange system with countless task openings and the largest pool of job seekers in California.

The WSB likewise administers a number of statewide labor force preparation programs and initiatives that focus on preparing grownups and youth for the manpower and constructing the state's economy. California disperses more than $394 million every year in federal funds to offer training services for adults, employment 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 regional, state, private, and public entities that supply extensive and ingenious work services and resources to satisfy the needs of the California workforce.