Evaluation of the Wisconsin Reemployment Services and Eligibility Assessment (RESEA) Program

Marios Michaelides, Peter Mueser, Eileen Poe-Yamagata and Scott Davis
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Abstract: The Reemployment Services and Eligibility Assessment (RESEA) program is a job-search assistance intervention targeting Unemployment Insurance (UI) claimants in the United States. The program requires new UI claimants to attend a counseling session at the start of their UI claims to: 1) undergo an eligibility review to confirm their compliance with UI work search requirements, and 2) receive customized reemployment services. This study reports the results of a large-scale randomized controlled trial (RCT) of the Wisconsin RESEA program conducted in 2022-2023, a period of strong labor market conditions. Results show that the program increased take-up of job counseling services and significantly reduced UI duration and benefit amounts collected, generating substantial savings for the UI system. Further, requiring participants to attend a follow-up counseling session is shown to cause additional reductions in UI receipt, beyond those achieved by the initial session.

Date: 2025-11-28
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