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The Employment Development Department (EDD) offers a large variety of services to millions of 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 taxation company, the EDD also deals with the audit and collection of payroll taxes and preserves work records for more than 17 million California workers.

Among the largest state departments, the EDD has employees situated at numerous service places throughout California who supply numerous crucial services to millions each year, consisting of:

- Assisting companies with their labor needs.

• Helping job hunters get work.
• Administering the federally-funded workforce financial investment programs for adults, dislocated employees, and youth.
• Assisting disadvantaged receivers in becoming self-sufficient.
• Helping jobless 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 supplies administrative support to the Department consisting of service operations preparing and assistance services, personnel services for EDD workers, 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 are constant with the Department's objective and goals. In addition, the Director's Office consists of:
  
  Equal Job Opportunity Office: Investigates and resolves discrimination problems filed versus the Department by staff members, companies, and candidates for employment and training, and provides 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 guideline.
  
  Disability Insurance Branch
  
  For employment 60 years, the EDD had actually administered the SDI program, which supplies partial wage replacement for California workers 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) 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 likewise have the alternative of electing an alternative Voluntary Plan.
  
  Information Technology Branch
  
  The Information Technology Branch is responsible for preparing policy development, system maintenance, support, operations, and oversight of automated options within the Department. The Branch supplies information processing technical assistance and services for among the largest infotech environments in state government.
  
  Policy, Accountability, and Compliance Branch
  
  This branch supplies key audit, investigation, study, examination, and evaluation services to the programs administered by the EDD and partnering firms. These services assistance programs run effectively and effectively, fulfill federal and state statutory and regulative requirements, and protect billions of dollars in monetary assets that travel through the EDD yearly. Also acts as the EDD's main liaison 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 made up of Marketing and Constituent Services, Communications, and the Web Content and Usability Group. The Public Affairs Branch supplies outreach, marketing, interactions, training that supports EDD programs and services, and manages the EDD website and social media pages.
  
  Tax Branch
  
  One of the biggest tax collection companies in the country, the Tax Branch manages all administrative, education, employment 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 nearly $54 billion in payroll taxes, including more than $42 billion in PIT, processes more than 27 million employer payroll tax files and remittances, and maintains records for more than 16 million workers. The Branch provides a variety of payroll tax seminars and workshops, and supplies individually services to employers to help them fulfill their tax responsibilities.
  
  Find out more info about EDD's Payroll Taxes.
  
  Unemployment Insurance Branch
  
  Established more than 60 years earlier, the Unemployment Insurance (UI) program offers advantages to individuals who have lost their jobs through no fault of their own, are actively looking for work, have the ability to work, employment and are prepared to accept employment. Each year, the EDD pays out almost $6 billion UI benefits and receives and processes more than 2 million new claims. The program is moneyed by mandated company contributions. Additional services provided 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 largest public employment services operations on the planet providing services at numerous service locations statewide and linking one million job hunters with employers each year.
  
  California receives federal Wagner-Peyser funds for employment work services. Job seeker services include task referral, job search workshops, placement services, and unique help to individuals who are experiencing trouble in finding work.
  
  Services to companies consist of matching task openings with qualified candidates and specialized recruitment projects. The Workforce Services Branch also offers CalJOBSSM, an online labor exchange system with thousands of task openings and the largest swimming pool of task hunters in California.
  
  The WSB also statewide workforce preparation programs and initiatives that focus on preparing adults and youth for the workforce and constructing the state's economy. California disperses more than $394 million annually in federal funds to supply training services for adults, dislocated workers, and youth through the America's Job Center of CaliforniaSM(AJCC), previously understood as One-Stop Career Centers. The AJCC system is a collaboration of regional, state, personal, and employment public entities that supply comprehensive and employment innovative work services and resources to satisfy the needs of the California labor force.