To ensure that State Workforce Agencies are aware of the increases in social security survivors and old age retirement annuities and Federal civilian pensions due to the annual cost of living adjustment (COLA).

To ensure State Workforce Agencies are aware of the Federal military retired pay annual cost of living adjustment (COLA) and to provide the Department of Defense Web site where the COLA information is located.

To ensure State Workforce Agencies (SWAs) are aware of the revised of Remuneration for the UCX program, which was issued December 18, 2006, based on the January 1, 2007, military pay increase.

To provide administrative guidance on changes in the SCSEP income eligibility guidelines resulting from the enactment of Public Law 109-365.

To provide Senior Community Service Employment Program (SCSEP) grantees with information about the statutory exemption of SCSEP wages for purposes of determining income eligibility for Federal housing programs and Food Stamps.

To announce three ETA-sponsored national training sessions on federal financial and administrative requirements to be held in 2007.

The primary goal of these sessions is to provide in-depth guidance and technical support on ETA financial and administrative requirements. Topics for the forums include financial reporting, monitoring, procurement, indirect costs, salary and bonus limitations, audit requirements, and a host of other financial and administrative management topics. Each forum will provide educational opportunities for state, local and discretionary grantees and enhance their understanding of the requirements of operating Federal grants. Fiscal and administrative staff working in ETA’s formula and discretionary grant programs should attend. Interested program staff are also invited to attend.

To solicit comments on establishing the Acceptable Level of Performance (ALP) for the average age of pending single claimant lower and higher authority appeals and to provide results from an analysis of the starting parameter for measuring the timeliness of nonmonetary determinations.

To advise state workforce agencies that the transition of oversight responsibility for the Wage Record Interchange System (WRIS) from the National Association of State Workforce Agencies (NASWA) to the Employment and Training Administration (ETA) need not affect the states’ data exchange for UI purposes.

To request the designation of Areas of Substantial Unemployment (ASUs) in each state as defined in the Workforce Investment Act (WIA) in order to allot funds under the Act for the period beginning July 1, 2007.

To transmit a correction to the Minimum DUA Weekly Benefit Amount for major disasters declared during the first quarter of fiscal year (FY) 2007. This issuance corrects an error in the AWBA for the Virgin Islands.