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Idaho Department of Labor requests $7.33 million in dedicated authority to sustain unemployment operations
Summary
Department of Labor officials told JFAC they need additional dedicated-fund spending authority to maintain unemployment insurance operations as federal pandemic-era funding declines and to preserve capacity to respond quickly if claims rise.
The Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee on [date not specified] reviewed the Idaho Department of Labor’s fiscal 2026 budget requests, including a $7,330,000 increase in dedicated-fund spending authority for unemployment insurance operations.
Brooke Dupree, budget and policy analyst for the Legislative Services Office, walked the committee through the department’s consolidated fund analysis and explained the proposed $4,868,600 cash transfer from the Unemployment Penalty and Interest Fund to the Employment Security Fund. Dupree and department staff said the transfer corrects an overcounting that moved more money to the penalty fund than intended and restores amounts to the continuously appropriated employment security account.
Department director Janie Rivera told the committee the department’s federal grant…
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