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

Among the biggest state departments, the EDD has workers located at hundreds of service places throughout California who offer lots of essential services to millions each year, including:

- Assisting companies with their labor needs.

• Helping job candidates get employment.
• Administering the federally-funded labor force financial investment programs for grownups, dislocated workers, and youth.
• Assisting disadvantaged receivers 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 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 offers administrative support to the Department including company operations planning and assistance services, human resource services for EDD employees, 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 consistent with the Department's mission and objectives. In addition, the Director's Office includes:
  
  Equal Employment Opportunity Office: Investigates and fixes discrimination complaints filed versus the Department by workers, companies, and candidates for employment 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, agreements, legislation, and guideline.
  
  Disability Insurance Branch
  
  For 60 years, the EDD had administered the SDI program, which offers partial wage replacement for California workers who are unable 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 likewise administers the Paid Family Leave program and DI Elective Coverage program for self-employed individuals. Employers also have the option of choosing an alternative Voluntary Plan.
  
  Infotech Branch
  
  The Information Technology Branch is responsible for planning policy advancement, system upkeep, assistance, operations, and oversight of automated solutions within the Department. The Branch provides data processing technical assistance and services for among the largest details technology environments in state federal government.
  
  Policy, Accountability, and Compliance Branch
  
  This branch offers crucial audit, investigation, study, assessment, and review services to the programs administered by the EDD and partnering companies. These services assistance programs run successfully and effectively, satisfy federal and state statutory and regulative requirements, and protect billions of dollars in monetary properties that pass through the EDD annually. Also acts as the EDD's main intermediary with state and federal chosen officials and supplies information, 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 consisted of Marketing and Constituent Services, Communications, and the Web Content and Usability Group. The General Public Affairs Branch provides outreach, job marketing, communications, training that supports EDD programs and services, and handles the EDD website and social media pages.
  
  Tax Branch
  
  Among the biggest tax collection companies in the country, the Tax Branch deals with all administrative, education, customer 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 $54 billion in payroll taxes, including more than $42 billion in PIT, processes more than 27 million employer payroll tax documents and remittances, and maintains records for more than 16 million employees. The Branch uses a variety of payroll tax seminars and workshops, and supplies individually services to companies to assist them satisfy 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 supplies benefits to individuals who have lost their jobs through no fault of their own, are actively looking for work, have the ability to work, and want to accept employment. Each year, the EDD pays nearly $6 billion UI benefits 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 job Trade Adjustment Assistance.
  
  Workforce Services Branch
  
  The Workforce Services Branch (WSB) operates one of the largest public work services operations in the world providing services at hundreds of service places statewide and connecting one million job candidates with companies each year.
  
  California receives federal Wagner-Peyser funds for employment services. Job seeker services consist of job recommendation, task search workshops, positioning services, and special support to people who are experiencing difficulty in finding work.
  
  Services to companies consist of matching task openings with qualified prospects and specialized recruitment projects. The Workforce Services Branch likewise offers CalJOBSSM, an online labor exchange system with thousands of task openings and the largest swimming pool of task candidates in California.
  
  The WSB likewise administers several statewide labor force preparation programs and initiatives that focus on preparing grownups and youth for the workforce and developing the state's economy. California distributes more than $394 million each year in federal funds to offer training services for adults, dislocated employees, and youth through the America's Job Center of CaliforniaSM(AJCC), previously called One-Stop Career Centers. The AJCC system is a collaboration of regional, state, personal, and public entities that provide detailed and ingenious employment services and resources to meet the needs of the California workforce.