To advise states of the enactment of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021, specifically Division N, Title II, Subtitle A, the Continued Assistance for Unemployed Workers Act of 2020, on December 27, 2020, and to provide an overview and instructions for implementing certain UI-related provisions.

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

To announce the RESEA reemployment core measure; and program performance measures for Median Earnings for RESEA program participants and Reemployment Rate for all UI Eligible participants.

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, 2021, (second quarter of Fiscal Year (FY) 2021).

To inform states that a large number of temporary Federal employees are expected to be separating from the U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, and Decennial Census due to the completion of the 2020 Census.

To provide corrected Attachments I and II to Fiscal Year (FY) 2021 State Workforce Agency Unemployment Insurance (UI) Resource Planning Targets and Guidelines.

The purpose of this Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) is to provide states access to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) guidance about the LWA program, which may be found at https://www.fema.gov/disasters/coronavirus/governments/supplemental-payments-lost-wages. With regard to Question 11 in the attachment to UIPL 27-20, Change 1, this UIPL provides a correction to and supersedes UIPL 27-20, Change 1.

To provide State Workforce Agencies (SWAs) with information on the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) IT security guidelines for use by SWAs to ensure the security of their UI IT systems.

To provide State Workforce Agencies (SWAs) with advance notice of the upcoming distribution of new Hewlett Packard (HP) Proliant DL20 computer systems.

To provide states information about preliminary FY 2021 UI State Administration base resource planning targets, general guidelines for resource planning, and an explanation of how the U.S. Department of Labor (Department) allocates base resources among the states.