Reemployment Services and Eligibility

What this funds

UI National Activities funding supports the states collectively in administering their UI programs. These investments help the Department improve program performance and accountability and support critical information technology infrastructure for use by states. UI National Activities funding provides an avenue for states to apply common technology-based solutions to improve the efficiency and performance of states' UI operations. These funds support the UI Interstate Connection Network (ICON), which is a data exchange network that allows state workforce agencies to share claims information; and the Information Technology Support Center (ITSC), which provides services, products, and technical assistance to state workforce agencies in support of UI information technology modernization. UI National Activities funds also support the operations, maintenance, and support of the UI Database Management System (UIDBMS), which is a comprehensive system that helps the National and Regional Offices to perform the oversight and support functions of the State UI operations. The UIDBMS is designed to: ' provide a mechanism for states to submit required reports on program activities to ' provide systems and analytical support for data necessary to oversee benefit payment and non-payment accuracy; identify the underlying causes and other characteristics of improper payments and denials, and to provide state, regional, and Federal managers with the information needed to identify, implement, and evaluate the effectiveness of solutions to the problems identified; as well as ' establish and maintain a program to collect and analyze information on the UI ' provide proper performance in the capability of collecting, storing, accessing, and tracking of State Workforce Agency UI financial, budgeting, and related data; ' provide the process to bill federal and military agencies for reimbursement of ' provide a system to analytically ensure the accuracy of and validate data elements being reported on UI reports. As a diagnostic tool for states; identify areas of the reporting process which need attention as well as specific areas where reporting and validation procedures are producing inconsistent results; ' provide administrative reports to assist in obtaining State Workforce Agency ' support unemployment assistance to individuals who become unemployed as a direct result of a major disaster but are not covered under the Federal or state UI ' support of the Department's Office of Unemployment Insurance's (OUI) internal ' support of OUI's external (public) web content site. The Department is currently engaged in a multi-year phased implementation project to modernize this system and create a new cloud-based system known as the UI Reports System (UIRS). Throughout this project, the Department will deploy new UIRS applications in a progressive rollout by program or function to all states. UI National Activities is a separate line item within the UI budget. These activities support the Federal-state UI system as a whole, are interstate or multi-state in nature, or are performed more efficiently and cost-effectively on a consolidated rather than decentralized basis. Funding for these activities is generally issued through cooperative agreements and contracts. The base amount of $18,000,000 for UI National Activities will provide continued support for ICON operations, ITSC, the UI reporting system, actuarial projects, and training and technical assistance activities. Funds also provide for the acquisition of technical services, hardware, and software to support state UI activities and to support infrastructure used for communications to IT infrastructure essential to states' administration of the UI program. ETA intends to use these funds to continue the multi-year projects to modernize the UI Interstate Connection Network (ICON) hub. ICON operates on an antiquated network of mainframes that will no longer be supported in a few years. This funding will support an incremental implementation of ICON modernization that will leverage existing infrastructure that supports the UI Integrity Data Hub and allow for replacement of the 35-year-old ICON hub platform's architecture and modernization and standardization of its applications. This will create efficiencies, lower ongoing operational costs, and improve security. ICON modernization will also result in States access ICON for every UI claim filed in the country to access wage and other information to establish eligibility for benefits. ICON's continued operation is critical and cannot cease for even one day without disrupting the ability of states to determine eligibility for unemployment benefits. An interruption of ICON operations would delay the ability of states to make timely eligibility determinations and make payment of benefits "when due" as required in Federal law, thus creating a disruption in program services and harming unemployed workers and their families who rely on these benefits. ICON also supports performance accountability for workforce programs that need access to UI wage record data to calculate key performance measures. Under the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA), Department of Labor and Department of Education funded programs are statutorily required to use interstate wage record data to support performance measures; ICON is the source of that data. In addition, the FY 2027 request for UI National Activities includes $25,000,000 to be used to support identity verification services used by the states, a critical program integrity function. In FY 2026, Congress appropriated $18,000,000 for UI National Activities. These funds will be used to provide continued support for ICON operations, ITSC, the UI reporting system, actuarial

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