To provide guidelines for the FY 2024 UI RESEA grants and to invite State Workforce Agencies to submit a RESEA State Plan.

To advise states that in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has approved the extension of the ETA 9177 Report (Pre-Implementation Planning Checklist Report Version 1) through July 31, 2026. There is no change in the requirements of the approved collection.

To advise states of sequestration rules for FY 2024 to ensure State Workforce Agencies (SWAs) apply these rules to mandatory Unemployment Insurance (UI) programs.

To provide states with instructions for reconciling funding under Section 2105 of the CARES Act, as amended: Temporary Full Federal Funding of the First Week of Compensable Regular Unemployment for States with No Waiting Week.

To rescind revised Appendix E of ET Handbook No. 407 and Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) No. 16-23, Issuance of Revised Appendix E of the Employment and Training (ET) Handbook No. 407.

To ensure states are aware of the locality-based salary rates for certain Federal civilian employees.

To announce the Department of Labor’s (Department’s) interpretation concerning the application of state finality laws to temporary UC programs created under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, as amended.

To transmit the subject computation for State Workforce Agency usage in computing minimum weekly DUA amounts for all major disasters declared from January 1 – March 31, 2024 (second quarter of Fiscal Year (FY) 2024).

To ensure that states are aware that the social security survivors and old age retirement annuities and the Federal civilian pensions annual cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) increased for calendar year (CY) 2024, and to provide the U.S. Office of Personnel Management’s (OPM) COLA information.

To ensure State Workforce Agencies (SWAs) are aware of the Federal military retired pay annual COLA provided by the Department of Defense.