To provide tables for Fiscal Years (FY) 1997-2000 showing estimated FUTA receipts attributable to employment in each state and the amounts provided to each state for program administration and benefit payments. Cumulative totals for FY 1981 through FY 2000 are also included.

To transmit to the State Workforce Agencies (SWAs) guidance on the availability of relief from the ¿21-day¿ requirement for submitting IRS Form 8850, under the Work Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC) Program and the Welfare-to-Work Tax Credit (WtWTC).

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 announce fiscal year 2002 training seminars for SWA/BAM Investigators.

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 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 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 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 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.