Supplemental Budget Request Opportunity for Additional Administrative Funding to Support States’ Ongoing Administrative Activities Associated with Certain CARES Act Unemployment Compensation Programs | ETA UIPL 17 24 FPUC

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This grant opportunity, issued by the U.S. Department of Labor's Employment and Training Administration (ETA) through Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) 17-24 (FPUC), makes additional administrative funding available to help jurisdictions cover the continuing, back-end work tied to certain CARES Act unemployment compensation programs, especially the Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation (FPUC) program. Even though FPUC benefits were temporary, many of the administrative obligations did not end when benefit payments stopped. The purpose of this funding is to help states and territories sustain the staffing, systems, and operational capacity needed to meet federal and state requirements that continue after the program period, particularly where work volumes remain high due to audits, reporting, appeals, fraud investigations, overpayment actions, and financial clean-up.

The funding is specifically aimed at ongoing administrative costs connected to several core categories of post-implementation work. First, it supports required reporting and data retention activities, which often involve maintaining program records, ensuring documentation is complete and accessible for review, and meeting federal retention timelines and documentation standards. Second, it covers audit-related and oversight activities, including responding to federal or state audits, addressing findings, producing supporting documentation, and implementing corrective actions where needed. Third, it targets efforts to detect, establish, and recover overpayments, which includes identifying improper payments (including fraud and non-fraud overpayments), calculating overpayment amounts, issuing determinations, pursuing recovery through repayment plans or offsets when appropriate, and maintaining accurate accounting and case documentation throughout the process. Finally, it supports financial reconciliation efforts, which typically means aligning benefit and administrative expenditures with federal financial reporting, resolving discrepancies, confirming that reported expenditures match accounting records, and ensuring funds were drawn and tracked correctly.

In terms of basic grant details, this is a discretionary grant opportunity under CFDA number 17.225, categorized under Employment, Labor and Training. The opportunity number is listed as ETA UIPL 17 24 FPUC. The estimated maximum award amount (award ceiling) is $1,200,000 per award, and the announcement anticipates up to 59 awards. While the notice itself is framed as an "additional" or "supplemental budget request" opportunity, the practical intent is to provide extra resources to finish and maintain the administrative workstreams that remain active long after the original CARES Act program surge.

Eligible applicants are governmental UI administering entities across a defined set of jurisdictions: states (including the District of Columbia and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico), the U.S. Virgin Islands, Pacific Territories, and the Freely Associated States. In other words, the opportunity is tailored to the public agencies responsible for unemployment insurance administration in these areas, rather than private organizations or general nonprofit applicants.

Key dates included with the posting indicate the opportunity was created on 2024-08-26, with an original closing date of 2024-09-25. Applicants would be expected to meet that deadline and follow the instructions and allowable cost guidance laid out in the UIPL and any referenced attachments or related ETA guidance governing UI administrative funding, documentation, and reporting.

For program-specific questions, the notice directs inquiries by email to Rahel Bizuayene at Bizuayene.rahel@dol.gov. This contact is positioned as the point of coordination for clarifying requirements, submission expectations, or other administrative issues related to the UIPL and the supplemental funding request process.

• The Employment and Training Administration in the employment, labor and training sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Supplemental Budget Request Opportunity for Additional Administrative Funding to Support States’ Ongoing Administrative Activities Associated with Certain CARES Act Unemployment Compensation Programs" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 17.225.
• This funding opportunity was created on 2024-08-26.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2024-09-25. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $1,200,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 59 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: Others.

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