Unemployment Insurance Integrity Center of Excellence Operations
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The Employment and Training Administration plans to award a cooperative agreement to the Center for Employment Security Education and Research to continue operating the Unemployment Insurance Integrity Center of Excellence, a role it has held since Fiscal Year 2017. Funded with $9 million from the Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024, the center supports state workforce agencies in safeguarding the Unemployment Insurance program by delivering training, technical assistance, and resources aimed at reducing improper payments and preventing fraud. As a 501(c)(3) organization and the education and research arm of the National Association of State Workforce Agencies, CESER brings specialized expertise in UI and workforce development, offering scalable tools and rapid alerts on emerging fraud schemes to enhance integrity across all states. The center’s core responsibilities include developing and distributing practical resources, promoting innovative solutions that can be adopted nationwide, and ensuring states are promptly informed of new threats and improper payment patterns. The operation is managed through the U.S. Department of Labor, with Jeannette Flowers as the designated point of contact for inquiries. The agreement reflects a long-standing partnership between the federal government and CESER to strengthen the resilience of the Unemployment Insurance system through targeted education, research, and collaboration with state administrators.
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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.
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