To provide State Workforce Agencies (SWAs) guidance on how to count months when verifying AFDC/TANF target group eligibility under the Work Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC) and the Welfare-to-Work Tax Credits= (WtWTC) Program.

To notify states of their portion of the $8 billion Reed Act distribution and to provide the methodology used to determine the distribution.

To announce the release of the Fiscal Year (FY) 2002 Labor Surplus Area (LSA) list. The LSA list is published on the following websites: www.doleta.gov and www.usworkforce.org. It will no longer be published in Area Trends. On December 31, 2001, the list was published in the Federal Register. Unfortunately, the publication contained errors including omission of the City of Miami, Florida; listed Port St. Lucie City, County of St. Lucie Florida in the wrong county and spelled Yuma Arizona as Luma. The FY 2002 list will be republished in the Federal Register, in the near future. The list included on the websites does not contain these errors.

To transmit a set of revised Welfare-to-Work (WtW) Questions and Answers (Qs & As) as official policy to the system; provide guidance and clarifying information to WtW grantees regarding the need for the revisions; describe how the Qs & As are organized and can be accessed electronically; and highlight those Qs & As of particular importance.

To provide State Workforce Agencies (SWA) with guidelines and key dates for the release of UI BAM program data for CY 2001 and to inform SWAs that the Department of Labor will publish BAM program data in the CY 2001 UI PERFORMS Annual Report.

To announce the availability of the Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration's (DOL/ETA) guide entitled,"How Youth Programs Manage Intake, Individual Services Strategies (ISS) and Case Files."

To establish procedures for notifying the IRS and DOL in the event an Indian Tribe fails to make required payments under state UI law.

To provide state workforce agencies with guidance on improving the Trade Act programs.

To inform states of OMB's approval of the ETA 586, Interstate Arrangement for Combining Employment and Wages, and transmit the new expiration date and the National Office's burden hour estimate for this reporting requirement.

To advise State Workforce Agencies (SWAs) of the Provisions of Title II of the Job Creation and Worker Assistance Act of 2002 (the Temporary Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 2002), to provide instructions for implementing the legislation, and to provide fiscal and reporting instructions.