UI Integrity Center of Excellence Operations
Closed Posted
- Opportunity number
- ETA-UI-2025-01
- Agency
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Employment and Training Administration
Department of Labor
- Applications due
- Award size
- Up to $9,000,000
Opportunity facts
- Assistance listings
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- 17.225 Unemployment Insurance
- Funding instrument
- Cooperative Agreement
- Category
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- Employment, Labor and Training
- Eligible applicants
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- Other
- Points of contact
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- Jeannette Flowers flowers.jeannette@dol.gov
Opportunity details come from Grants.gov. Updated .
About this opportunity
The Employment and Training Administration (ETA) intends to award a cooperative agreement to the Center for Employment Security Education and Research (CESER) for continued operations of the Unemployment Insurance (UI) Integrity Center of Excellence. The primary mission of the Integrity Center is to provide training and technical assistance to states to improve UI program integrity, develop and disseminate resources, and promote innovative tools for preventing improper payments and enhancing fraud prevention solutions. The center will focus on enabling rapid alerts to states about new improper payment practices and fraud schemes. Qualifications for the award appear to be specifically tailored to CESER, which has operated the center since FY 2017 and is the research arm of the National Association of State Workforce Agencies. The cooperative agreement is a sole source award with a response deadline of September 5, 2025, and was posted on August 25, 2025.
The grant opportunity includes $9,000,000 in funding authorized under the Full Year Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2025. The funding will support continued operations of the UI Integrity Center, which has been managed by CESER since fiscal year 2017. The performance period appears to cover the remainder of fiscal year 2025, with the potential for continued support in subsequent years. CESER will execute the project from its organizational base, leveraging its experience as a 501(c)(3) entity focused on unemployment insurance and workforce development initiatives. The project will provide nationwide support to state workforce agencies in improving UI program integrity and fraud prevention mechanisms.
Synopsis
The Employment and Training Administration (ETA) intends to award a cooperative agreement to the Center for Employment Security Education and Research (CESER) for continued operations of the Unemployment Insurance (UI) Integrity Center of Excellence (Integrity Center).The Full Year Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2025 (Public Law 119-7) provides continuing Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 funding for federal agencies for the remainder of FY 2025, funding most programs and activities at the FY 2024 levels. This includes the funding authorized under the Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024 (Public Law 118-47) which provided "… $9,000,000 for continued support of the Unemployment Insurance Integrity Center of Excellence… ." as part of the Department's appropriation for State Unemployment Insurance and Employment Service Operations. The UI Integrity Center has been operated by the National Association of State Workforce Agencies' (NASWA)/CESER since FY 2017. CESER is a 501(c)(3) entity incorporated in August 1994 as an education and research arm of the NASWA, which is a national organization of state administrators of the publicly-funded state workforce system and is a leading provider of information technology, education, and research support focused exclusively on UI and workforce development initiatives and activities. The primary mission of the UI Integrity Center is to provide training and technical assistance to states to improve UI program integrity; develop and disseminate UI program integrity resources and promote innovative new tools and products that are transferable and scalable for all states to prevent UI improper payments and enhance fraud prevention solutions; and enable rapid alerts to states on new improper payment practices and fraud schemes as they are identified.
Files
| File | Type | Posted |
|---|---|---|
| CESER UI Integrity Center Notice of Intent to Award Sole Source.pdf |
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