UI Integrity Center of Excellence Operations
Posted by Employment and Training Administration
Opportunity snapshot. This Grants.gov announcement — UI Integrity Center of Excellence Operations — is cataloged under number ETA-UI-2025-01 and tied to CFDA assistance listing 17.225, posted by Employment and Training Administration. Grants.gov currently shows the opportunity as closed, first posted on August 25, 2025. The funding category is Discretionary, delivered as a cooperative agreement.
Award economics. The award range on file is Up to $9,000,000. The agency has projected $9.0 million in total estimated funding for this announcement. It expects to issue 1 award. If the agency funds the expected 1 award from the $9.0 million estimated pool, the average award works out to roughly $9.0 million. Cost sharing is not required, so applicants do not need to commit matching funds to be competitive on this opportunity. Federal award ranges are often upper bounds; actual allocations reflect program appropriations, the strength of the applicant pool, and the evaluation committee's scoring.
Deadline and action path. This opportunity closed on September 5, 2025. Future funding cycles may be published under the same CFDA number, so monitoring the parent program page is the most reliable way to catch re-announcements. Every Grants.gov submission requires an active SAM.gov registration and a Unique Entity ID. Review the Eligibility section below carefully — federal eligibility categories (nonprofit, state or local government, tribal, individual, educational institution, small business) have distinct registration and reporting requirements. Pre-application outreach to the listed agency contact is permitted and often welcomed — it helps clarify scope and scoring priorities.
Award Range
Up to $9,000,000
Close Date
September 5, 2025
This is a Notice of Intent to award funding. This notice does not solicit applications.
Posted
August 25, 2025
Est. Total Funding
$9,000,000
Expected Awards
1
Instrument
Cooperative Agreement
Description
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 Full Year Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2025 (Public Law 119-7) provides continuing Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 funding for federal agencies for the remainder of FY 2025, funding most programs and activities at the FY 2024 levels. This includes the funding authorized under the Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024 (Public Law 118-47) which provided “… $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 FY 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
25
Official Listing on Grants.gov
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Parent Grant Program
Unemployment Insurance
U.S. Department of Labor
Agency Contact
flowers.jeannette@dol.gov
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