To notify State Workforce Agencies of the availability of Fiscal Year (FY) 2011 funds for activities, including technology-based activities, that will support the prevention, detection, and collection of improper UI benefit payments, improve state performance, and address outdated Information Technology (IT) system infrastructures necessary to improve UI program integrity.

To inform State Workforce Agencies or agencies designated by Governors as "Cooperating State Agencies" (also jointly referred to as "States") of the assumptions used in determining the FY 2011 Training Cap; to inform States of the Department of Labor's (Department) decision to distribute 100 percent of these funds through this distribution; and to provide the funding formula used in calculating the Second Distribution of FY 2011 Training Funding Amounts, defined as the remainder of the 35 percent of fiscal year training funds that were held in reserve, as well as to the remainder of job search and relocation allowance funds that were not distributed to States in response to reserve requests received before July 1, 2011.

To provide a summary of selected ETA 581 data with associated charts and tables for CY 2010.

To announce the Unemployment Insurance (UI) Interstate Benefits and Federal Programs (IBFP) Training Conference scheduled to be held September 7-9, 2011, in St. Petersburg, Florida, and encourage state administrators to send their Interstate/Federal Program Coordinators and Interstate Connection (ICON) programmer(s) to the conference

a. To provide preliminary FY 2012 dollar and staff year base resource planning targets for UI operations to be used in planning and developing State Quality Service Plans (SQSP); b. To provide general guidelines for FY 2012 resource planning; and c. To explain how base resources were allocated among states.

To provide information and procedural guidance to the state workforce agencies (SWAs) on legislative program extensions through December 31, 2011.

To transmit the subject computation for State Workforce Agency usage in computing minimum weekly DUA amounts for all major disasters declared during the fourth quarter of Fiscal Year (FY) 2011.

To provide information to states regarding FY 2011 UI State Administration base resource allocations, general guidelines for resource planning, above-base funding, and SBRs.

To announce the release and availability of two ETA Occasional Papers on Mentoring, Educational, and Employment Strategies to Improve Academic, Social and Career Pathway Outcomes in Persistently Dangerous Schools prepared by Social Policy Research Associates, Inc. (SPRA).

To advise states that the ETA 203 report, “Characteristics of the Insured Unemployed,” should no longer be produced through statistical sampling.