7100 Employment Development Department
Major Program Changes
  • Automated Collection Enhancement System - The Governor's Budget includes $2.8 million ($2.5 million General Fund and $.3 million various special funds) for the EDD's Automated Collection Enhancement System (ACES), which will improve the EDD's ability to track, collect, and audit the payment of specified employer payroll taxes, including the personal income tax withholding.

  • Employment Training Panel - The Governor's Budget includes an increase of $2.5 million (Employment Training Fund) for the Employment Training Panel to augment its employment training contract program. The Employment Training Panel supports the California economy by ensuring that employers, primarily small businesses, have the trained workers they need to compete in the global economy while providing workers with reasonable wages and secure employment. The Panel prioritizes special economic development initiatives to retain and create high-skilled, high-paying jobs throughout the state.

  • Tax Sharing Ratio Change - The Governor's Budget includes $13.5 million General Fund and a corresponding decrease of $13.5 million from various special funds. This adjustment will properly align the EDD's costs for collecting various employment taxes.

  • October Revise - The Governor's Budget includes an increase of $200.6 million (various special funds) in benefit payments and a decrease of $19.4 million in state operations for the various employment assistance payments that EDD administers.

  • Contingent Fund Transfer to the General Fund - Elimination of $27.1 million Contingent Fund from the Job Services Program with a corresponding transfer to the General Fund. Services similar to those provided through the EDD's Job Services Program are provided to certain specific client groups through the state's CalWORKS Program.