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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