State Unemployment Insurance and Employment Service Operations

B1: Carryover of prior year collected recoveries of prior year unpaid obligations for DUA carried over into FY 2025. This amount will be transferred to FEMA.

B2: The American Rescue Plan (ARP) Act of 2021, P.L. 117-2, Title IX, Subtitle A, Section 9032, appropriated $2,000,000,000 to the Secretary of Labor for fiscal year 2021 to remain available until expended, to detect and prevent fraud, promote equitable access, and ensure the timely payment of benefits with respect to unemployment compensation programs, including programs extended under subtitle A of title IX of the ARP Act. ETA was provided $1,994,122,343 of these funds. The Fiscal Responsibility Act, P.L. 118-5, Division B, Title I, Section 24, rescinded $1,000,000,000 in unobligated balances in FY 2023.

B3: Actual and anticipated recoveries for UI Integrity.

B4: Actual and anticipated recoveries for DUA. This amount will be transferred to FEMA.

B5: Actual and anticipated recoveries for EUC08 administrative monies for return to the Unemployment Trust Fund account and then to the Payments to the UTF account if applicable.

B6: Actual and anticipated reimbursements from FEMA of $40,000,000 for DUA Benefits and $10,000,000 for DUA Administration.

B7: This apportionment requests $136,735,000 for FY 2025 Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) administrative funding. Use of these funds is authorized by section 2102(g) of Division A, Title II, Subtitle A of the Cares Act, P.L. 116-136, as amended by P.L. 116-260 and P.L. 117-2. The funding is requested to support states' ongoing administrative costs for the PUA program for both workload and non-workload generating activities. As a result of changes to the Department's grants management process, the Department was unable to issue approximately $14.1 million in earned workload based administrative funding for FY 2024. An additional $97.1 million will be awarded through a supplemental funding opportunity to support states' ongoing program work. The remaining $25.5 million included in this request will cover states' ongoing workload based administrative earnings for FY 2025. This apportionment includes an additional $47,150,000 for FY 2025 Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation (PEUC) administrative funding. Use of these funds is authorized by section 2107(d) of Division A, Title II, Subtitle A of P.L. 116-136, as amended by P.L. 116-260 and P.L. 117-2. The funding is requested to support states' ongoing administrative costs for the PEUC program for both workload and non-workload generating activities. As a result of changes to the Department's grants management process, the Department was unable to issue approximately $11.8 million in earned workload based administrative funding for FY 2024. An additional $23.6 million will be awarded through a supplemental funding opportunity to support states' ongoing program work. The remaining $11.8 million included in this request will cover states' ongoing workload based administrative earnings for FY 2025. This apportionment inclues an additional $2,998,740 for administrative costs of the temporary full funding of the first week of benefit payments for states without a waiting week, as authorized by section 2105(d) of Division A, Title II, Subtitle A of the CARES Act, P.L. 116-136, as amended by P.L. 116-260 and P.L. 117-2. This funding will support states' ongoing administrative costs due to non-workload generating activities. This funding was initially expected to be issued in FY 2024, but the Department was unable to make the funding opportunity available in time for award in FY 2024. The Department's FY 2024 reapportionment request was approved in recognition of the numerous non-workload generating activities such as responding to various audits, ongoing overpayment detection and recovery activities, and the funding reconciliation activities required under UIPL 20-20 Change 1. These funds will be made available through the soon-to-be issued SBR opportunity for states to cover the additional costs of administering the CARES Act Section 2105/first week compensated provisions. This level of funding will provide each state $56,580 to cover these administrative costs. This apportionment reflects the requested amounts for PUA, PEUC, and First Week administrative funding as reduced by the 5.7% mandatory sequester. Mandatory PUA, PEUC, and First Week administrative funds are subject to sequestration in the UTF, and then the amount net of the sequester is transferred to SUIESO for allotment to the States.