Georgia Department Of Labor

The Georgia Department of Labor Financial Services Division operates as a state government entity responsible for administering workforce development, unemployment insurance, and labor market information programs across Georgia. As a U.S. state government agency, it serves as the state workforce agency and receives federal funding to implement employment and training initiatives, unemployment compensation programs, and labor market data collection. The entity is registered with the System for Award Management (SAM.gov) and has held active federal award authority since March 2009.

The Georgia Department of Labor Financial Services Division has provided limited federal contract services, primarily through a small purchase order arrangement with the U.S. Marshals Service Investigative Operations Division. Between August 2021 and October 2023, the entity received three consecutive annual purchase orders totaling approximately $2,450 in firm fixed-price compensation for conducting Social Security Number (SSN) inquiry searches and lookups to support the Marshals Service's investigative operations. These purchase orders, which carried no set-aside designations, represent the entity's only documented federal contract work during the historical period reviewed. The awards were competitively solicited with completion dates aligned to fiscal year cycles, indicating routine renewal of this investigative support service.

The Georgia Department of Labor Financial Services Division has demonstrated substantial federal grant activity across multiple workforce development and unemployment insurance programs administered by the U.S. Department of Labor's Employment and Training Administration and Bureau of Labor Statistics. The entity has served as a prime grant recipient for numerous formula grants and project grants supporting core state workforce functions, including unemployment insurance administration, labor market information (LMI) collection and dissemination, reemployment services and eligibility assessment (RESEA) programs, trade adjustment assistance (TAA), disaster unemployment assistance (DUA), and the Work Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC) program. Additionally, Georgia received multiple grants related to pandemic-related unemployment compensation programs, including Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation (PEUC), Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA), Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation (FPUC), and Mixed Earners Unemployment Compensation (MEUC), as well as grants supporting unemployment insurance program modernization, fraud prevention and detection, and equitable access initiatives. The entity also received cooperative agreements from the Bureau of Labor Statistics for the Labor Force Statistics program (CFDA 17.002), through which it collects, analyzes, and publishes employment, unemployment, and wage data for programs including Current Employment Statistics (CES), Local Area Unemployment Statistics (LAUS), Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS), and Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW). Recent grants awarded in 2025 and 2024 include a $542,223.46 cooperative agreement for labor market information services and multiple formula and project grants supporting unemployment insurance operations, reemployment services, trade adjustment programs, and workforce development initiatives. The Georgia Department of Labor has not indicated intention to subaward funds under most of these grants, maintaining direct operational control over program implementation, though certain grants specifically authorize potential subawards to local workforce service providers and partner agencies within the American Job Center network.