To announce the availability of $100 million for American Apprenticeship Initiative Grants to public-private partnerships. The Department will award approximately 25 grants from $2.5 million to $5 million each, for a period of performance of 5 years from the date of award. The deadline for applying is April 30, 2015.

To disseminate the final report of a study to develop an enhanced military to civilian occupational crosswalk under the provisions of Section 222 of the VOW to Hire Heroes Act and to alert the workforce system and its partners of the availability of the study and resulting enhanced crosswalk. The enhanced crosswalk is designed to help transitioning servicemembers and veterans expand their potential options to transfer military skills and training to civilian careers and employment.

To inform the public workforce system and partners of the functionality and value of the government-wide Veterans Employment Center (VEC) available now through the eBenefits portal hosted by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) at: https://www.ebenefits.va.gov/ebenefits/jobs.

To inform State Workforce Agencies (SWAs) about a revision of the improper payment rate methodology for Unemployment Insurance Performs Core Measures.

To ensure states are aware that: 1) the social security survivors and old age retirement annuities and the Federal civilian pensions annual cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) will increase for calendar year 2015, and 2) COLA information may be found on the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Web site.

To ensure states are aware of the revised Schedule of Remuneration for the UCX program that reflects the military pay increase effective January 1, 2015.

To ensure states are aware of the locality-based salary rates for certain Federal civilian employees.

To clarify application of sequestration in Fiscal Year (FY) 2015 on delayed benefit payments from prior fiscal years and resulting administrative costs.

To ensure State Workforce Agencies are aware of the Federal military retired pay annual cost of living adjustment (COLA) provided by the Department of Defense.

To announce the rate of interest that the U.S. Department of the Treasury (Treasury) will charge on Title XII advances during CY 2015.