Employment and Training Administration · Department of Labor
Unemployment Insurance Integrity Center of Excellence Operations
Key facts
- Deadline
- The funder's estimated date (Sep 26, 2024) has passed. Check the official notice Estimate, not confirmed by the funder ?
- Award size
- Up to $9M
- Match ?
- Not required · Work out your budget and match
- Who can apply
- Set by the official notice: see Who can apply below
- Where
- Anywhere in the U.S., including Tennessee
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How this fits you
- Available in Tennessee (nationwide program)
- No match required
- Past Tennessee awards on file: 51
Tell us who you are to see whether you're eligible.
Official notice: https://simpler.grants.gov/opportunity/85cfae9e-d222-469b-b791-a4271fd26b29 · Printed from grantme.click/grants/6abb176a-9f66-4c43-a9ea-bca367a43ddc
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About this grant
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.
Who can apply, from the official notice
Sole Source Award to Center for Employment Security Education and Research
Who in Tennessee has won this program
20 awards to Tennessee groups in 2 counties since 2019. Largest shown:
| Past winner | Where | Amount | Fiscal year |
|---|---|---|---|
| State of Tennessee | Nashville | $247.9M spent that year | 2025 |
| TN Department of Labor & Workforce Dr | Nashville, Davidson County | $62.8M | 2020 |
| TN Department of Labor & Workforce Dr | Nashville, Davidson County | $41.7M | 2021 |
| TN Department of Labor & Workforce Dr | Nashville, Davidson County | $39.8M | 2025 |
| TN Department of Labor & Workforce Dr | Nashville, Davidson County | $38.7M | 2020 |
| TN Department of Labor & Workforce Dr | Nashville, Davidson County | $36.3M | 2024 |
| TN Department of Labor & Workforce Dr | Nashville, Davidson County | $33.9M | 2022 |
| TN Department of Labor & Workforce Dr | Nashville, Davidson County | $3.7M | 2021 |
| TN Department of Labor & Workforce Dr | Nashville, Davidson County | $3.6M | 2023 |
| TN Department of Labor & Workforce Dr | Nashville, Davidson County | $3.6M | 2020 |
| TN Department of Labor & Workforce Dr | Nashville, Davidson County | $3.5M | 2021 |
| TN Department of Labor & Workforce Dr | Nashville, Davidson County | $3.3M | 2024 |
Source: Federal Audit Clearinghouse, USAspending.gov. Past awards show who this program funds. They don't guarantee future awards.
Tennessee groups that got this money through Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development
This federal money also reaches local groups as pass-through grants. In Tennessee, Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development passes it on: watch that agency for applications, not the federal agency. 31 pass-through grants on file. Largest shown:
| Past winner | Where | Through | Amount | Fiscal year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northern Middle Tennessee Local Workforce Development Board, Inc. | Clarksville, Montgomery County | TN Department of Labor & Workforce Dr | $259K | 2024 |
| Northern Middle Tennessee Local Workforce Development Board Inc. | Clarksville, Montgomery County | Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development | $230K spent that year | 2023 |
| East Tennessee Human Resource Agency, Inc. | Knoxville, Knox County | TN Department of Labor & Workforce Dr | $177K | 2024 |
| Greater Memphis Chamber | Memphis, Shelby County | TN Department of Labor & Workforce Dr | $113K | 2024 |
| First Tennessee Development District | Johnson City, Washington County | TN Department of Labor | $98K spent that year | 2024 |
| Chattanooga Area Regional Council of Governments | Chattanooga, Hamilton County | TN Department of Labor & Workforce Dr | $95K | 2024 |
| Upper Cumberland Local Workforce Development Board, Inc. | Cookeville, Putnam County | TN Dept. of Labor & Workforce Development | $89K spent that year | 2023 |
| First Tennessee Development District | Johnson City, Washington County | Tennessee Department of Labor | $82K spent that year | 2023 |
| First Tennessee Development District | Johnson City, Washington County | TN Department of Labor & Workforce Dr | $78K | 2024 |
| South Central Tennessee Development Dist | Mt Pleasant, Maury County | TN Department of Labor & Workforce Dr | $77K | 2024 |
| Chattanooga Area Reg Council of Governments/Se TN Development District | Chattanooga, Hamilton County | Tennessee Department of Labor & Workforce Development and Hamilton County Workforce Innovation | $70K spent that year | 2024 |
| Northern Middle Tennessee Local Workforce Development Board, Inc. | Clarksville, Montgomery County | State of TN Dept of Labor | $61K spent that year | 2025 |
Source: USAspending.gov pass-through reports (the first recipient reports each one of $30,000 or more).
About the federal program
Unemployment Insurance, also called “UI”
Program number 17.225 (the federal Assistance Listing number) · U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration · Formula grant (amounts set by a formula), direct payment (any use)
Match
None required (federal program listing).