Business & Economic Development · Active
Unemployment Insurance · DOL · Sparse NOFO · mega band
Unemployment Insurance (CFDA 17.225) - federal assistance administered by U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), catalogued in the SAM.gov Assistance Listings.
- $5M–$500M
- Typical award range
- 2
- Indexed opportunities
- 0
- Open now
- DOL
- Administering agency
The verdict
According to indexed Grants.gov opportunity volume among active SAM.gov programs on PlainGrants, Unemployment Insurance ranks #76 of 504, #1 of 17 within DOL, and #1 of 42 among Business & Economic Development programs by listed funding ceiling. Across 504 active programs, 47.041 leads by opportunity count (319, funding-ceiling rank #249) ≠ 66.054 leads by funding ceiling ($7.0 billion, opportunity rank #326). CFDA 17.225 is an active Business & Economic Development program with 2 indexed Grants.gov opportunities. Of the 20 most recent listings shown here, 0 are open for application.
- $5M–$500M
- typical award range (SAM.gov)
- -
- next application deadline
- $386.4 million
- largest award ceiling indexed
- 8%
- of the catalog is Business & Economic Development
Unemployment Insurance · upper-band quiet listing (#11/502 by ceiling)
Unemployment Insurance clears 491 of 502 published ceilings (98th percentile), an upper-band catalog maximum, not a promised award.
Unemployment Insurance vs programs with listed funding ceilings
Where this CFDA's SAM.gov award ceiling sits among active Assistance Listings with a reported ceiling
$500,000,000 Top 2% higher than 98% of 502 programs
Programs, banded by listed funding ceiling
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Source SAM.gov Assistance Listings · 2026-07-29
SAM.gov Assistance Listing plate
CFDA 17.225 · DOL VOL-SPARSE · #76/504
VOL-SPARSE · UPPER-Q · SOLO-LISTING · NOFO-CLOSED · CEIL-TENS-M · ELIG-SLG · BOOK-FULL · LISTING-LIVE
- VOL-SPARSE 2 indexed
- UPPER-Q #76/504
- SOLO-LISTING No peer gap
- NOFO-CLOSED 0 open of 20 listed
- CEIL-TENS-M $5M–$500M
- ELIG-SLG State/local government
- BOOK-FULL 20 listed / 2 indexed
- LISTING-LIVE Active SAM.gov listing
Opportunity-volume neighbourhood · CFDA 17.225
VOL-SPARSE · #76/504: quiet/busy corpus poles and ±- row peers, not a SAM.gov catalog reprint.
Engineering Grants · busiestUnemployment Insura… · this listingPlant and Animal Di… · quiet pole
Funding posture
Rare NOFOs under a mega ceiling
Unemployment Insurance pairs a mega SAM.gov ceiling ($5.0 million to $500.0 million) with a sparse Grants.gov trail (2 indexed rows). Large paper capacity, few public solicitations: watch the open flags on those scarce listings rather than expecting a steady NOFO cadence.
Assistance Listing text · DOL
Grants to states for the administration of the federal-state unemployment insurance system.
Public-sector applicant lane · DOL
SAM.gov lists only government/tribal applicants for Unemployment Insurance. This is a public-sector Assistance Listing corridor, not a general nonprofit or small-business open call.
Predominantly grants (G) · CFDA 17.225
89% of the 47 indexed listings under CFDA 17.225 are grants (G), the SAM.gov-coded mechanism Unemployment Insurance typically uses to move money. None of the indexed listings require applicant cost-sharing.
- Estimated funding, indexed listings with a reported figure
- $21.6 billion across 47 listings (avg $460.6 million)
- Expected awards, indexed listings with a reported count
- 2,193 across 47 listings
Figures are computed from the full indexed Grants.gov book for CFDA 17.225, not the 10 listings shown below; a listing missing a field is excluded from that field's total, not counted as zero.
Archived NOFO book · CFDA 17.225
None of the 47 indexed Grants.gov listings under CFDA 17.225 are open on the current extract. Reported award ceilings swing from $8,000 to $386.4 million (48301×); treat any single listing's ceiling as a local bound, not the program's typical award. 98% of listings carry the Employment, Labor and Training (ELT) funding-activity code.
- Open vs archived (indexed book)
- 0 open · 47 archived
- Median reported award ceiling
- $7.8 million (46 listings with a ceiling)
- Dominant Grants.gov funding-activity code
- Employment, Labor and Training (ELT)
Open counts use the same posted+close_date rule as the rest of PlainGrants; funding-activity codes are the Grants.gov category_of_funding field (first code when several are joined). Ceiling median is over positive reported ceilings only.
DOL · administering agency
U.S. Department of Labor
Workforce development, job training, worker protection, and employment services.
Grants.gov opportunities · CFDA 17.225
Fiscal Year 2026 Funding Allotments and Operating Guidance for Unemployment Insurance Reemployment Services and Eligibility Assessments Grants
UI Interstate Connection Network (ICON) – Continued Support
Funding to Support Ongoing Administration of Certain Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act Programs - Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation
Funding to Support Ongoing Administration of Certain Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act Programs - Mixed Earners Unemployment Compensation
Funding to Support Ongoing Administration of Certain Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act Programs – Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation
Funding to Support Ongoing Administration of Certain Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act Programs - Pandemic Unemployment Assistance
Announcement of Enhancements to Identity Verification Services and Funding Opportunity to Support State Costs Associated with Participation in Such Services
2026 National Unemployment Insurance Convening Reimbursement Instructions
Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 State Workforce Agency Unemployment Insurance (UI) Resource Planning Targets and Guidelines
UI Interstate Connection Network
Showing 10 of the 20 most recent listings (2 indexed).
What to do next
CFDA 17.225: 2 indexed opportunities · 0 open on the recent slice.
- No open Grants.gov rows on the recent slice, watch this CFDA for the next NOFO drop. How to apply
- U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) administers 17 Assistance Listings in this extract. Agency catalog
- Nearest peer by listed ceiling: Highway Planning and Construction (20.205). Compare program
SAM.gov ceilings are catalog maximums, not guaranteed awards; verify every deadline on Grants.gov before submitting.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Every figure on PlainGrants is rendered directly from SAM.gov Assistance Listings data, no number is typed in by an editor. This grant program's figures are rendered directly from SAM.gov Assistance Listings data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, the data changelog, or report a data issue on this page.
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