# FLC Grants to States

**Agency:** Labor  
**Account:** Foreign Labor Certification  
**Source document:** Employment and Training Administration · p. 13  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/budget/labor/flc-grants-to-states  

> **Trust:** parsed from the agency Congressional Justification. Approximate, **not summable**, verify at the cited page.

## Funding ($M)

| Fiscal year | Basis | Amount |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FY2025 | enacted | 23.3 |
| FY2026 | enacted | 23.3 |

## Labor discretionary budget authority (OMB PBDB — authoritative)

FY2027 $10.30B, FY2026 $13.70B. This is the agency total, not a sum of the parsed lines.


## What this funds

In FY 2026, $23,282,000 was appropriated for foreign labor certification state grants. The Department anticipates that SWAs will receive an estimated 12 percent increase in workload across the H-2A and H-2B applications compared to FY 2025, which will continue the longstanding trend in both programs that will strain existing SWA resources, especially during the peak filling months of November through May. In FY 2026, the Department expects that the SWAs will inspect more than 76,000 non-rental housing units for agricultural workers employed under H-2A visas and reviewed and post nearly 49,000 H-2A and H-2B job orders to help recruit U.S. workers for available positions.


**Where it sits:** Civilian / Non-Defense › Labor › Employment and Training Administration › Foreign Labor Certification › FLC Grants to States


*HitchAI is an independent intelligence service, not affiliated with the U.S. government. Civilian line dollars are parsed from agency Congressional Justifications and are approximate.*