Reemployment Services and Eligibility Assessment (RESEA)

Evidence Step: Evidence

Department: Labor and Workforce Development

Priority Area: Workforce Development and Employment

Program Description

The federal Reemployment Services and Eligibility Assessment (RESEA) program is intended to better link the unemployed with the overall workforce system. RESEA provides Unemployment Insurance (UI) claimants access to specific services through the American Job Center network that can help them get back into the workforce faster.

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Details

Program Demographic: Adults

Delivery Setting: Organization / Business / Local Government, Other Community Setting

Current Participants: 11,124

Research

This is a study of a Florida program

Impact of the Reemployment and Eligibility Assessment Initiative (Poe-Yamagata et al. 2011)

Outcomes

Labor force participation rate

2025: 60.2%

2023: 59.9%

2022: 60.6%

Outputs

Number of identified claimants who attended RESEA orientation

2025: 11,124

2023: 11,532

2022: 1,009

Number of RESEA participants co-enrollment in WFS programs

2025: 95

2023: 201

2022: 326

Number of RESEA participants participating in labor force

2025: 11,124

2023: 11,532

2022: 1,009

Logic Model

If we provide Unemployment Insurance claimants access to specific RESEA services such as, - development of an individual reemployment plan, customized career and labor market information, access and enrollment in other American Job Center network services and resources that support the claimant’s return to work – then they will become reemployed faster and, as a result, help those individuals while providing businesses with the skilled workers they need to compete in the global economy.