To provide guidelines for the FY 2019 UI RESEA grants and to invite State Workforce Agencies to submit applications for funding.

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

To 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 2019 and 2) COLA information is located on the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) website.

The Employment and Training Administration (ETA) is providing a renewed form ETA 9178 for State Workforce Agencies and other applicable grant recipients to document the quarterly progress toward completing their supplemental grant activities. This form is renewed for grantee quarterly reporting through August 31, 2021.

To transmit the subject computation for State Workforce Agency usage in computing minimum weekly DUA amounts for all major disasters declared during the second quarter of Fiscal Year (FY) 2019.

To provide sequestration rules for Fiscal Year (FY) 2019 to State Workforce Agencies (SWAs) that apply to mandatory Unemployment Insurance (UI) programs and information on how the U.S. Department of Labor (Department) will apply those rules. These rules include the application of sequestration on delayed benefit payments for prior FYs and the resulting administrative costs.

To remind state workforce agencies (SWAs) that Federal law requires all states to participate in the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Treasury Offset Program (TOP) to recover delinquent unemployment compensation (UC) debts for benefit overpayments due to fraud, benefit overpayments due to a claimant’s failure to report earnings, and delinquent UC taxes.

To provide guidance to state workforce agencies related to administration of the UCX program regarding continuous active duty in a reserve status when military reservists have consecutive deployments.

To transmit the subject computation for State Workforce Agency usage in computing minimum weekly DUA amounts for all major disasters declared during the first quarter of Fiscal Year (FY) 2019.

To provide guidance to state workforce agencies responsible for administration of the federal-state Unemployment Insurance (UI) programs on provisions of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) related to UI, and to: 1) recommend that state UI agencies continue to work with other workforce partners in the development and implementation of strategies that support the WIOA vision, as described in Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) No. 19-14; 2) encourage State and Local Workforce Development Boards to consider how to most effectively leverage federal-state UI programs, including the Reemployment Services and Eligibility Assessment Program (RESEA), as they implement integrated service delivery strategies through American Job Centers under WIOA; and 3) clarify the requirements and methods for UI to make financial contributions towards WIOA infrastructure costs.