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21.0 Travel and transportation of persons 55 9 25.1 Advisory and assistance services 8,561 5,774 25.7 Operation and maint. of equipment 532 42.0 Insurance claims and indemnities 110 119 The Committee directs the Department to include information in the fiscal year 2027 CJ on: (1) how the ability of State workforce agencies to provide federally required service levels for unemployment insurance programs is affected when States do not receive the resources they need for administration as identified by the Resource Justification Model; (2) whether improvements to the Resource Justification Model could support improved State administration of the unemployment insurance programs; (3) whether Federal funding to States fully pays for the administration of Federal benefit programs, including emergency benefit programs implemented during the COVID-19 pandemic; (4) how ETA used CARES Act, ARPA, and annual appropriations to improve the administration and integrity of the unemployment insurance system since 2020 and how the termination of the UI ARPA grants in May 2025 impacts efforts to improve the integrity of States' unemployment insurance systems; (5) how States identify fraudulent actors who apply for unemployment insurance payments and the nature of these actors; (6) how any new appropriations and authorities would help the Department improve access to unemployment insurance for eligible workers and identify and recoup fraudulent overpayments; and (7) how any new appropriations and authorities would enhance methods by which ETA helps States better administer their unemployment insurance programs and identify and recoup fraudulent 1) How the ability of State workforce agencies to provide federally required service levels for unemployment insurance programs is affected when states do not receive the resources they need for administration as identified by the Resource Response: Federal law provides that the Secretary of Labor (Secretary) will impart to each state "such amounts as the [Secretary] determines to be necessary for the proper and efficient administration" of the program based on: (1) the population of the state; (2) an estimate of the number of persons covered by the state law and the cost of proper and efficient administration of the law; and (3) other factors the Secretary finds relevant. Such amounts cannot be in excess of the amount appropriated for a given fiscal year. See The Resource Justification Model (RJM) is a data collection instrument developed by the Department in coordination with State Workforce Agencies (states) in the late 1990's, which collects data on how states expended their UI administrative grant funds in the most recently completed Federal Fiscal Year (FY). RJM also inputs the Department's estimates of workload counts in key programmatic areas for the forecasted budget year and extrapolates states' reported expenditures from the previous year to establish estimated state costs for the budget year. While RJM may have originally been envisioned as the tool to establish the amount of the annual budget request for state administrative funding based on the total RJM estimated budget year state costs, it has ultimately become the basis for the allocation of the otherwise established appropriated The Department includes a proposed funding amount each year in the President's Budget. This is generally based on an assessment of national factors as well as Presidential priorities and is separate from the RJM. There is often a gap between states' costs as estimated by RJM and the funding level available to allocate. In recent years, the cumulative estimated costs based on states' RJM submissions have exceeded the total The Department published a literature review in January 2025 related to funding for UI administration and program performance. This literature review is available at: In addition to the literature review, the Department is currently engaged in a research project that is expected to include a brief analysis of how state administrative funding levels correspond with program performance, which will further inform th

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