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Labor commissioner outlines UI modernization, budget requests and solvency shortfall

Appropriations General Government Subcommittee · January 28, 2026

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Labor Commissioner Barbara Rivera Holmes presented a $3.26 million amended FY26 request to support a strategic modernization, including one-time salary supplements, rent for career centers and laptop replacements, and warned that the state's unemployment insurance trust fund balance was $1.98 billion as of December 2025, below the DOL solvency threshold.

Labor Commissioner Barbara Rivera Holmes told the subcommittee the Georgia Department of Labor is pursuing a multi-pronged modernization to replace an unemployment insurance system dating from the 1980s, increase fraud detection, and speed services to claimants.

Holmes said the governor’s amended FY26 recommendations include $3,260,000 in targeted funding: a…

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