Welcome to myEDD. In this video we'll present and describe the process of creating an account for myEDD.
Log in to manage your unemployment, disability or Paid Family Leave benefits or your benefit overpayments.
Employers, medical providers and voluntary plans also use myEDD to access SDI Online.
After creating this account, you'll have easy access to UI Online
for unemployment insurance benefits and SDI Online for disability insurance and Paid Family Leave benefits.
If you have a benefit overpayment, you can manage it with benefit overpayment services.
To get started, you'll need a personal email that is used only by you.
If you don't already have an email account, you'll need to create one.
There are many options available at no cost.
You'll start by creating a myEDD account.
myEDD is a secure login that connects you to unemployment insurance,
disability insurance and Paid Family Leave Benefit Services
as well as benefit overpayment services.
Since this is your first time creating a myEDD account, select Create Account.
To create your account, you will start by entering your personal email address and creating a password.
When creating your password, be sure to follow the password requirements shown here.
For security purposes, never share your password with anyone.
Next, you will need to select your written language preference when receiving emails from myEDD.
At the bottom of the page, you will have to agree to keep your contact information current so we can communicate with you.
We also ask that you report any fraudulent activity on your claim or account.
We will send you an email with additional instructions to the email address you provided.
Open the email and select confirm email.
If you do not select confirm email within 48 hours,
it will expire and you will have to restart creating your myEDD account .
If you do not receive this email message, check your junk or spam folder.
After your email is confirmed, you can log into your account.
Start by entering your email and password then select login.
For your security, you'll be asked to verify your identity each time you log in.
The very first time you attempt to log in we will send you a verification code by email.
Later in the registration process you will be able to set up another method to get the
login verification code including by text message or through an automated phone call.
This code is only valid for five minutes.
Next, enter the six digit verification code that we emailed you and select submit.
If you do not receive this email message, check your junk or spam folder.
Select resend the email if you did not receive anything.
After you enter the verification code, you will need to set up your security question.
Select a security question from the drop down menu and enter the answer in the section below.
Make sure you save the question and answer in case you need to recover your password.
Select continue after your security question and answer have been saved.
Next, you will set up your login verification method.
Earlier we sent you a verification code to your email.
If you prefer to receive the code via text message or phone call, you may select either of those options.
To continue using email, select use my email instead.
In this case, we're going to select text message.
Enter the phone number you want to use to verify your login and select text code.
Next, you'll be asked to enter the verification code that we sent by text message.
If you do not receive this code, select text again.
Once you enter the code, select submit.
You will be directed to a screen letting you know you have successfully set up text message as your login verification.
When you log into myEDD in the future you will receive a code via text message to verify that the correct person is trying to log into your account.
You can now select myEDD home.
Congratulations, you're done.
To create or access your UI Online account, select UI Online.
To file and access your disability insurance benefits
or to file for Paid Family Leave benefits, select SDI online.
To manage your benefit overpayment make or view payments or set up an installment agreement,
select benefit overpayment services.
We hope you have found this video helpful in learning how to register for myEDD.
We invite you to visit our department website for more information.