To provide clarifying guidance to National Dislocated Worker Grant recipients regarding the review of incremental and supplemental funding requests, and in particular, how the grantee's past performance will be taken into account.

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.

This Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL), Change 1 provides current SCSEP national grantees with revised allocations for Program Year (PY) 2020, and provides a two-month extension for operations for current national grantees to allow the transition to grants that will be awarded under the SCSEP Funding Announcement.

To transmit the subject computation for State Workforce Agency usage in computing minimum weekly DUA amounts for all major disasters declared from October 1 - December 31, 2020 (first quarter of Fiscal Year (FY) 2021).

To provide an updated consolidated list of "acceptable" narrative reasons for separation from military service for UCX qualifying purposes; and to provide states with procedures to follow when unable to clarify narrative reasons for separation with the military.

To remind states of resources, tools, and services available through the Unemployment Insurance (UI) Integrity Center and the U.S. Department of Labor’s (Department) Employment and Training Administration (ETA) to support effective use of NDNH and SDNH and assist in preventing and detecting UI improper payments, and announce the availability of a webcast on Recommended Operating Procedures (ROPs) for Cross-Matching Activities with National and State Directories of New Hires and state best practices in the use of the NDNH and the SDNH.

To provide states guidance on determining the availability of suitable employment prior to the approval of training under the TAA Program's Final Rule. This determination will assist trade-affected workers' reemployment as soon as possible following a separation.