Amendments to fiscal year 2024 RESEA grant guidance

CLASSIFICATION
   EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING ADMINISTRATION                  RESEA
               ADVISORY SYSTEM                             CORRESPONDENCE SYMBOL
          U.S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR                         OUI/DL
             Washington, D.C. 20210                        DATE
                                                           December 16, 2025


ADVISORY:        UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE PROGRAM LETTER NO. 08-24,
                 CHANGE 2

TO:              STATE WORKFORCE AGENCIES

FROM:            LORI FRAZIER BEARDEN
                 Acting Assistant Secretary

SUBJECT:         Amendments to Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) No. 08-24,
                 Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 Funding Allotments and Operating Guidance for
                 Unemployment Insurance (UI) Reemployment Services and Eligibility
                 Assessment (RESEA) Grants

1. Purpose. To Amend UIPL No. 08-24 Pursuant to Executive Order (EO) 14148, Initial
   Rescissions of Harmful Executive Orders and Actions.

2. Action Requested. The U.S. Department of Labor’s Employment and Training
   Administration (ETA) requests state agency administrators provide information contained in
   this UIPL to the appropriate state staff. State RESEA program managers are directed to
   review their program design to ensure compliance with this UIPL.

3. Summary and Background.

   a. Summary – Pursuant to revocations enacted by EO 14148, this UIPL amends FY 2024
      RESEA operating guidance to remove references and text promoting alignment with the
      revoked EO 13985, Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities
      Through the Federal Government.

   b. Background – RESEA is an evidence-based program that combines reemployment
      services and UI integrity activities to improve the employment outcomes of individuals
      receiving unemployment compensation and to strengthen the integrity of states’ UI
      programs. ETA issues annual RESEA operating guidance to direct states’ use of RESEA
      grant funds. UIPL No. 08-24, the FY 2024 RESEA operating guidance issued February
      21, 2024, included information promoting RESEA program alignment with EO 13985,
      which was issued on January 20, 2021, and revoked on January 20, 2025, by EO 14148.
4. Guidance. This UIPL amends UIPL No. 08-24 by removing the text “promoting program
   equity,” from section 3.a, the text “(iii) promoting program equity;” from section 4.c, section
   4.c.iii, Promoting Program Equity, and the reference to EO 13985 included in section 6,

   RESCISSIONS                                              EXPIRATION DATE
   None                                                     Continuing

   References. Additional conformity revisions applied throughout UIPL No. 08-24 include the
   relabeling of former sections 4.c.iv through 4.c.vii as sections 4.c.iii through 4.c.vi,
   respectively. This UIPL does not alter states’ responsibilities identified in UIPL No. 02-16,
   UIPL No. 02-16, Change 1, or UIPL No. 41-94.

5. Inquiries. States should direct inquiries to the appropriate ETA Regional Office.

6. References.
      • EO 14148, 90 FR 8237, Initial Rescissions of Harmful Executive Orders and Actions,
         issued January 20, 2025,
         https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/01/28/2025-01901/initial-
         rescissions-of-harmful-executive-orders-and-actions;
      • EO 13985, 86 Fed. Reg. 7009, Advancing Racial Equity and Support
         for Underserved Communities through the Federal Government, issued January 20,
         2021, https://www.federalregister.gov/d/2021-01753;
      • UIPL No. 08-24, Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 Funding Allotments and Operating Guidance
         for Unemployment Insurance (UI) Reemployment Services and Eligibility Assessment
         (RESEA) Grants, issued February 21, 2024,
         https://www.dol.gov/agencies/eta/advisories/uipl-08-24;
      • UIPL No. 02-16, Change 1, State Responsibilities for Ensuring Access to
         Unemployment Insurance Benefits, Services, and Information, issued May 11, 2020,
         https://www.dol.gov/agencies/eta/advisories/unemployment-insurance-program-
         letter-no-02-16-change-1;
      • UIPL No. 02-16, State Responsibilities for Ensuring Access to Unemployment
         Insurance Benefits, issued October 1, 2015,
         https://www.dol.gov/agencies/eta/advisories/unemployment-insurance-program-
         letter-no-02-16; and
      • UIPL No. 41-94, Unemployment Insurance Program Requirements for the Worker
         Profiling and Reemployment Services System, issued August 16, 1994,
         https://oui.doleta.gov/dmstree/uipl/uipl94/uipl_4194.htm.

7. Attachment(s). N/A