To provide information and resources to states and local areas to encourage the outreach and recruitment of homeless and runaway youth, including youth displaced by recent hurricanes, into employment and training programs funded under the Workforce Investment Act (WIA) Youth program.

To inform state workforce agencies (SWAs) that the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has approved a one-time collection of information for the evaluation of worker profiling models, to provide data reporting formats, and to provide reporting instructions.

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 annual cost of living adjustments (COLAs).

To provide states with the Program Year (PY) 2005 ACSI Table of Weights

To announce the release of the Special Tabulation of Census 2000 Data on Limited English Proficient Adults, and a Glossary of Translated Workforce Terms. These are planning and resource tools for states and local workforce areas to use in providing services to Limited English Proficient (LEP) groups in those areas.

To provide the Department's interpretation, under the Trade Act of 1974, as amended, and the regulations at 20 CFR 617, of the conditions under which distance learning may be a type of training approvable as classroom training under the TAA program.

The attached checklist updates the status of Training and Employment Guidance Letters (TEGLs) since the last checklist transmitted by Training and Employment Notices 7-01 and 7-01, Change 1.

Copies of TEGLs are available on the Advisory web site at: http://wdr.doleta.gov/directives/.

To provide guidance on the use of funds granted under Section 302(a) of the Social Security Act (SSA) for the administration of state unemployment compensation (UC) laws and to rescind guidance which permitted the de-obligation from a state, and reobligation to Maryland, of a portion of such funds for state-specific services benefiting only the first state.

To update the directory of Federal (civilian) and military agencies that have requested detailed UCFE or UCX benefit payment data which support the Department of Labor’s quarterly unemployment compensation billings.

To notify State Workforce Agencies (SWAs) of a revision to IRS Form 1099-G.