To announce the availability of up to $150 million for Job-Driven (JD) National Emergency Grants (NEGs). These funds will provide grants to states to drive strategies identified in the January 30, 2014 Presidential Memorandum on Job-Driven Training for Workers at the local level. States will use JD NEGs to implement new or expanded local and regional job-driven partnerships that will serve more dislocated workers and achieve better employment-related outcomes for this group of workers. If more than the currently anticipated level of funds becomes available and the number of acceptable proposals exceeds $150 million, the Department reserves the right to make awards in excess of $150 million.

This Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) identifies for the public workforce system the refocused roles and responsibilities expected to be carried out by JVSG staff; conveys the duties they are to perform; and discusses the relationship of services provided by staff within the larger workforce system.

To announce the release and availability of a report, "Mentoring Youth and Young Parents: A Guidebook for Programs Helping Youth and Young Parents Navigate a Pathway to Self-Sufficiency."

To advise state workforce agencies of the completion of the MSDES project, which improves, streamlines, and automates UCX claims processing and billing for states and Federal military branches and to announce a webinar to provide an overview of the MSDES.

To provide SCSEP grantees with information about the statutory exemption of SCSEP wages for purposes of determining income eligibility for Federal housing programs and/or SNAP.

To announce the 2014 UI Integrity Summit that will be held on May 13-14, 2014, in Washington, D.C.

To announce the release and availability of the Significant Provisions of State Unemployment Insurance Laws Effective January 2014.

The U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (ETA) is pleased to announce the availability of Workforce Board Solutions, a web-based collection of governance resources for State and Local Boards as well as the debut of several new technical assistance products. While these tools and databases have been primarily developed for Board members and staff, the new website and its holdings have value for the wider public workforce system.

To provide an updated directory of Federal agencies that request detailed UCFE or UCX benefit payment data, which supports the U.S. Department of Labor’s (Department) quarterly unemployment compensation billings.

To announce the 2014 Unemployment Insurance (UI) Interstate Benefits and Federal Programs (IBFP) Training Conference scheduled to be held April 29-30, 2014, in Madison, Wisconsin, and encourage state administrators to send their Interstate/Federal Program Coordinators and Interstate Connection (ICON) programmer(s) to the conference