Unemployment Insurance Integrity Center of Excellence Operations
Past Federal grant forecast Posted
- Opportunity number
- ETA-UI-2024-01
- Agency
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Employment and Training Administration
Department of Labor
- Applications expected due
- Award size
- Up to $9,000,000
Opportunity facts
- Expected posting
- Assistance listings
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- 17.225 Unemployment Insurance
- Funding instrument
- Cooperative Agreement
- Category
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- Other
- Eligible applicants
- Not on record
- 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 is forecasting a cooperative agreement award to the Center for Employment Security Education and Research (CESER) for continued operations of the Unemployment Insurance Integrity Center of Excellence, with $9,000,000 in funding available under the Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024. This is a sole-source award; CESER, a 501(c)(3) education and research arm of the National Association of State Workforce Agencies (NASWA), has operated the Integrity Center since Fiscal Year 2017.
The Integrity Center's primary mission is to provide training and technical assistance to states on UI program integrity; develop and disseminate transferable, scalable UI program integrity resources and fraud prevention tools; and deliver rapid alerts to states on emerging improper payment practices and fraud schemes. CESER is a leading provider of information technology, education, and research support focused exclusively on unemployment insurance and workforce development initiatives.
The award is issued under CFDA 17.225, Unemployment Insurance, as part of the Department's State Unemployment Insurance and Employment Service Operations appropriation. Recipients are subject to Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements for Federal Awards (2 CFR Part 200) along with OMB-approved exceptions for the Department of Labor (2 CFR Part 2900). Non-federal entities expending $750,000 or more in federal awards annually must undergo a single or program-specific audit; those expending less are exempt except as otherwise noted in 2 CFR 200.503.
Forecast 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 Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024 (Public Law 118-47) provides "… $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 Fiscal Year 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.
Eligibility
Sole Source Award to Center for Employment Security Education and Research
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