Unemployment Offices
Links to official, Federal and state unemployment office
Web sites are listed below. Unemployment offices were established
under the Wagner-Peyser
Act of 1933.
Unemployment Office Facts
Each unemployment office is a government agency that administers
standard, extended and disaster unemployment
benefits, and typically also enforces state unemployment
laws.
Although unemployment office is the common name,
government agencies that administer unemployment benefits
go by different names. Unemployment offices are divisions
of labor departments or
other employment-related governmental agencies.
For example, what's commonly called the California
Unemployment Office is a division of the Employment
Development Department (EDD), an administrative agency
that is responsible for collecting unemployment taxes,
maintaining worker employment records, and administering
state-provided unemployment and disability benefits.
In other words, the California unemployment office is officially
called the Employment Development Department or EDD for short.
Employers! Looking for
information about Federal and state unemployment taxes?
See the information provided by the U.S.
Department of Labor and IRS.
Click the appropriate state unemployment office links below
for information about state unemployment taxes.
Federal Unemployment Office
The Employment & Training Administration (ETA), a division
of the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), is the so-called Federal
unemployment office. It's the "main" unemployment
office so to speak, because each state unemployment office
is an agent of the DOLETA in the nation's Unemployment Insurance
System.
The DOLETA Web site is a great place to generally research
unemployment benefits and laws. It is not, however, the place
to file a claim for unemployment benefits. The nearest state
unemployment office or its Web site is the place to do that.
Links to state unemployment office Web sites are listed below.
Federal
Unemployment Office
State Unemployment Office
As indicated above, the unemployment office Web site for
the state in which you work is the place to file a claim
for standard, extended or disaster unemployment benefits,
if it has online facilities for such. Many do; but, regardless
of whether or not they have online claim-filing facilities,
state unemployment office Web sites provide instructions
or contact information for filing claims by other means.
State unemployment offices also administer state
disability programs in the few states that have such.
If you're unemployed due to an injury or illness unrelated
to your job, then you might be eligible for one or more
state disability programs instead of unemployment benefits.
If you're unemployed due to an occupational
injury or illness directly related to your job, then you
might be eligible for workers'
compensation benefits administered by worker's
compensation agencies.
State unemployment office Web sites are also good places
to research state-specific unemployment benefits, eligibility
requirements, appeals, laws and employer taxes.
State Unemployment Office Web Sites
Under the Workforce
Investment Act of 1998, state unemployment offices
expanded by adding One-Stop
Career Centers. They provide free employment assistance
and are located throughout each state. Like your local
unemployment office, your local "One-Stop" might also
take claims for unemployment benefits.
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