- UIPL No. 13-21 (Issue Date: January 19, 2021)Subject
Fiscal Year (FY) 2021 Funding Allotments and Operating Guidance for Unemployment Insurance (UI) Reemployment Services and Eligibility Assessments (RESEA) Grants
PurposeTo provide guidelines for the FY 2021 UI RESEA grants and to invite State Workforce Agencies to submit applications for funding.
ActiveProgram Year:2020Fiscal Year:2021 - UIPL No. 12-21 (Issue Date: January 19, 2021)Subject
Implementation of Sequestration under the Budget Control Act of 2011 (BCA) for Mandatory Unemployment Insurance Programs for Fiscal Year (FY) 2021
PurposeTo advise states of sequestration rules for FY 2021 to ensure State Workforce Agencies (SWAs) apply these rules to mandatory Unemployment Insurance (UI) programs. These rules include the application of sequestration on delayed benefit payments for prior FYs and the resulting administrative costs.
ActiveProgram Year:2020Fiscal Year:2021 - UIPL No. 28-20, Change 1 (Issue Date: January 15, 2021)Subject
Additional Funding for Identity Verification or Verification of Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) Claimants and Funding to Assist with Efforts to Prevent and Detect Fraud and Identity Theft as well as Recover Fraud Overpayments in the PUA and Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation (PEUC) Programs
PurposeTo inform states regarding (i) the availability of additional funding and how to apply for the funding to cover administrative expenses and solutions that can be used to support the identity verification or validation of PUA claimants; (ii) to assist with efforts to prevent and detect fraud and imposter claims resulting from identity theft in the PUA and PEUC programs; and (iii) to recover fraud overpayments in the PUA and PEUC programs.
ActiveProgram Year:2020Fiscal Year:2021 - UIPL No. 12-01, CHANGE 2 (Issue Date: January 8, 2021)Subject
States' Ability to Exercise Flexibility in Staffing Models for the Performance of Certain Unemployment Compensation (UC) Administrative Activities
PurposeTo provide updated guidance to states regarding activities for which they continue to have flexibility in their staffing model after emergency temporary flexibilities for merit staffing standards expire on March 14, 2021. Additionally, this Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) provides updated guidance regarding the application of the UC confidentiality provisions to such activities. The information in this UIPL about confidentiality supersedes prior guidance on the topic provided in Section 5.b. of UIPL No. 12-01, issued December 28, 2000.
ActiveProgram Year:2020Fiscal Year:2021 - UIPL No. 16-20, Change 4 (Issue Date: January 8, 2021)Subject
Continued Assistance to Unemployed Workers Act of 2020-Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) Program: Updated Operating Instructions and Reporting Changes
PurposeTo provide states with updated guidance for the PUA program, as amended by the Continued Assistance to Unemployed Workers Act of 2020 (Continued Assistance Act) and updated instructions for reporting PUA program activities.
ActiveProgram Year:2020Fiscal Year:2021 - UIPL No. 11-21 (Issue Date: January 7, 2021)Subject
2021 Pay Adjustments for Annual Salary Rates for General Schedule (GS) Federal Employees in 53 Locality Pay Areas
PurposeTo ensure states are aware of the locality-based salary rates for certain Federal civilian employees.
ActiveProgram Year:2020Fiscal Year:2021 - UIPL No. 15-20, Change 3 (Issue Date: January 5, 2021)Subject
Continued Assistance for Unemployed Workers (Continued Assistance) Act of 2020 - Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation (FPUC) Program Reauthorization and Modification and Mixed Earners Unemployment Compensation (MEUC) Program Operating, Reporting, and Financial Instructions
PurposeThe purpose of this Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) is to provide guidance about the reauthorization and modification of the FPUC program and guidance about the new MEUC program authorized in sections 203 and 261 of the Continued Assistance Act, Public Law (Pub. L.) 116-260, respectively.
ActiveProgram Year:2020Fiscal Year:2021 - UIPL No. 10-21 (Issue Date: January 4, 2021)Subject
Social Security Annuities and Federal Civilian Pensions
PurposeTo ensure that states are aware that: 1) the social security survivors and old age retirement annuities and the Federal civilian pensions annual cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) will increase for calendar year 2021 and 2) COLA information is located on the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) website.
ActiveProgram Year:2020Fiscal Year:2021 - UIPL No. 24-20, Change 1 (Issue Date: December 31, 2020)Subject
Continued Assistance for Unemployed Workers Act (Continued Assistance Act) of 2020 - Provisions Affecting the Federal-State Extended Benefits Program
PurposeTo advise states of the enactment of the Continued Assistance Act, on December 27, 2020, amending certain provisions of the Emergency Unemployment Insurance Stabilization and Access Act (EUISAA), set out in division D of the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (Pub. L. 116-127), the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act (Pub. L. 116-136), and creating an optional, time-limited, and temporary waiver related to the 13-week "off" period in the permanent extended benefit (EB) law, the Federal-State Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 1970 (EUCA), 26 U.S.C. § 3304, note.
ActiveProgram Year:2020Fiscal Year:2021 - UIPL No. 17-20, Change 2 (Issue Date: December 31, 2020)Subject
Continued Assistance for Unemployed Workers Act of 2020-Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation (PEUC) Program: Extension, Transition Rule, Increase in Total Benefits, and Coordination Rules
PurposeThe purpose of this Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) is to provide guidance about the changes to the PEUC program authorized by section 206 of the Continued Assistance for Unemployed Workers Act of 2020 (Continued Assistance Act).
ActiveProgram Year:2020Fiscal Year:2021