Employment and Training Administration

Workforce Opportunity for Rural Communities (WORC) Round 7: A Grant Initiative for the Appalachian, Delta, and Northern Border Regions

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).&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;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.&nbsp; The UI Integrity Center has been operated by the National Association of State Workforce Agencies’ (NASWA)/CESER since Fiscal Year 2017.&nbsp; 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.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;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&nbsp; 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.&nbsp;

Sole Source Award to Center for Employment Security Education and Research

Employment and Training Administration

Grant programs

Workforce Opportunity for Rural Communities (WORC) Round 7: A Grant Initiative for the Appalachian, Delta, and Northern Border Regions

~$710K

Unemployment Insurance Integrity Center of Excellence Operations

Up to $9.0M

Funder Details

~$710K

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