Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 Funding Allotments and Operating Guidance for Unemployment Insurance (UI) Reemployment Services and Eligibility Assessments (RESEA) Grants
Closed Posted
- Opportunity number
- ETA-RESEA-UIPL-12-25
- Agency
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Employment and Training Administration
Department of Labor
- Applications due
- Award size
- $498,400 to $73,713,119
Opportunity facts
- Assistance listings
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- 17.225 Unemployment Insurance
- Funding instrument
- Grant
- Category
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- Employment, Labor and Training
- Eligible applicants
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- Other
- Points of contact
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- Rahel Bizuayene bizuayene.rahel@dol.gov
Opportunity details come from Grants.gov. Updated .
About this opportunity
The Department of Labor's Employment and Training Administration is seeking applications for Fiscal Year 2025 Reemployment Services and Eligibility Assessments (RESEA) Grants to support state workforce agencies. The primary objective is to help unemployment insurance claimants return to work more quickly through evidence-based interventions and assessments. Applicants must submit a detailed RESEA State Plan by July 10, 2025, through grants.gov, with a focus on co-enrollment in the Employment Service program and implementing interventions with high or moderate causal evidence ratings. States are required to dedicate 40% of funding to interventions that improve employment outcomes and reduce unemployment compensation duration. Evaluation criteria will emphasize program integrity, workforce system integration, and the potential to establish RESEA as an entry point for unemployment compensation claimants into other workforce programs.
The total funding allocation for this grant opportunity is $388,000,000, distributed across three funding streams: 89% ($345,320,000) for base-funding formula grants, 10% ($38,800,000) for outcome payments, and 1% ($3,880,000) reserved for research and technical assistance. The grant period will run from January 1, 2025, to September 30, 2026, providing states with approximately 21 months to implement their RESEA programs. While the funding will be distributed nationwide to state workforce agencies, each state will have flexibility in designing their specific RESEA approach while adhering to the core federal guidelines outlined in the Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) No. 12-25.
Synopsis
This UIPL provides general operating guidance for the RESEA program for FY 2025: (a) definitions for RESEA-specific terms; (b) funding details, including the base-funding formula for state grants, outcome payments, and evaluation set-aside costs; (c) program design requirements; (d) program operations, including the involvement of UI agency staff and performance reporting requirements; (e) evidence-based interventions and evaluation requirements; and (f) the RESEA State Plan submission process.
Files
| File | Type | Posted |
|---|---|---|
| UIPL 12-25.pdf |
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