NH Employment Security (NHES) is a federally funded state agency. NHES has 12 local offices located across the state to provide services to job seekers and employers. The State of New Hampshire Employment Security agency bureaus and their mission statements/purpose : •Unemployment Compensation Bureau (UCB): Pay benefits to eligible claimants temporarily unemployed or underemployed through no fault of their own. Benefits are paid to former employees of private industry, state and local governments. Collect taxes from employers to fund the benefit payments. •Employment Service Bureau and Operations (ESB): The mission of the Employment Service Bureau and Operations is to: Operate a free public Employment Service which benefits the job seeker, the employer, and the economy, by helping people find work through work search programs, employment information and economic and labor market information; and by assisting employers with job openings, and economic and labor market information which benefits the employer in making informed decisions about their business, relative to the economy. •Economic and Labor Market Information Bureau (ELMI): Develops and disseminates labor market information and measures labor market outcomes to assist public officials, private employers, educators and trainers, and the public in making decisions that promote economic opportunity and the efficient use of state labor resources.