Forecasted · Cooperative Agreement
Unemployment Insurance Integrity Center of Excellence Operations
Employment and Training Administration, Department of Labor
Key facts
Copied from the official Grants.gov record. Last verified October 29, 2026.
- Program name
- Unemployment Insurance Integrity Center of Excellence Operations
- Issuing agency
- Employment and Training Administration (Department of Labor)
- Opportunity number
- ETA-UI-2024-01
- Funding type
- Cooperative Agreement
- Funding purpose
- Other — 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).
- Status
- Forecasted
- Application deadline
- Forecasted · estimated close September 26, 2024 (agency estimate)
- Agency estimates
- Estimated posting: September 12, 2024. Estimates can change.
- Published award range
- Up to $9,000,000
- Expected number of awards
- 1
- Cost sharing or match required
- No
- Eligible applicants (official categories)
- Others (see Additional Information on Eligibility)
- Relevant to
- Neither businesses nor nonprofits are listed
- Geographic restrictions
- None stated in structured data (federal opportunities are often nationwide). Check the eligibility details and full announcement for any limits.
- Assistance Listing (CFDA)
- 17.225
- Official source
- View on Grants.gov ↗
- Application URL
- www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/356412 ↗Apply through Grants.gov (Workspace) using the application package on the official listing, unless the full announcement names a different submission system.
- Source identifier
- Grants.gov opportunity ID 356412 · Funding opportunity number ETA-UI-2024-01
- Posted
- September 12, 2024 · Source last updated September 12, 2024
- Last verified
- October 29, 2026 (against Grants.gov)
- Data completeness
- 100% of key fields published by the source
- Record confidence
- mediumforecast — dates and amounts are agency estimates.
Eligibility details (from the agency)
Sole Source Award to Center for Employment Security Education and Research
Description (from the official listing)
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.
Agency contact
Jeannette Flowers
Flowers.Jeannette@dol.gov