To provide an update on the IDH Participation Agreement (Version 5.0) and the available services in the IDH. The IDH is an important integrity tool to aid in detecting and preventing UI fraud; all states are strongly encouraged to enter into the updated IDH Participation Agreement in order to take advantage of the IDH services.

This Change 2 to Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) No. 3-21 conveys the remaining balance for Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 WOTC funding allotments and explains application requirements for State Workforce Agencies (SWAs) based on appropriated funding. Additionally, this Change 2 TEGL announces 18 states selected to receive additional FY 2022 backlog award funding and provides instructions to those states on how to proceed. The rest of TEGL No. 3-21 remains the same.

To ensure that states are aware that the social security survivors and old age retirement annuities and the Federal civilian pensions annual cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) increased for calendar year 2022, and to provide the U.S. Office of Personnel Management’s (OPM) COLA information.

To advise states that the period of performance for awards that promote equitable access to unemployment compensation (UC) programs is extended to March 31, 2024.

To share nonpartisan information and resources with states and local areas to make access to nonpartisan voting information and services more easily available through the public workforce system.

To transmit the subject computation for State Workforce Agency usage in computing minimum weekly DUA amounts for all major disasters declared from April 1 – June 30, 2022, (third quarter of Fiscal Year (FY) 2022).

To announce the 2022 Unemployment Insurance (UI) Interstate Benefits and Federal Programs (IBFP) Training scheduled to be held May 10-12, 2022, in Orlando, Florida, and encourage state administrators to send their Interstate/Federal Program Coordinators and Interstate Connection (ICON) programmer(s) to the training.

To provide information about the 2022 UI SIDES Seminar hosted by the National Association of State Workforce Agencies (NASWA) on April 26 - 28, 2022, in St. Louis, Missouri.

To provide adjusted funding levels for PY 2021 allotments for the DW program under WIOA Title I Section 132(c) on recapture and reallotment.

To notify states that the deadline for expressing interest in the grant opportunity announced in UIPL No. 2-22 is extended to September 30, 2022.