To provide State Employment Security Agencies with the specifications for ADP tasks required to achieve year-2000 compliance for the UI BAM program and to enable the BAM program to include samples of denied claims for unemployment compensation in order to determine if the claims were properly denied.

To transmit information and policy recommendations to State Employment Security Agencies (SESAs) that may assist them to improve the quality of reemployment services delivered by Wagner-Peyser service providers to profiled and referred UI claimants.

To announce the extension of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approval of Form ETA 581, Contribution Operations.

To advise that a copy of the Final Report, "Creating Workforce Development Systems That Work: An Evaluation of the Initial One-Stop Implementation Experience," is being sent under separate cover.

To advise the States of amendments made to Federal law by the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 and the Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997 affecting the Federal-State Unemployment Compensation (UC) program.

To provide revised program guidance to State Employment Security Agencies (SESAs) on the payment of TRA and subsistence and transportation allowances when a worker also receives Federal student financial assistance.

To announce JETT*CON '97 - Change, Challenge, Opportunity! (Joint Employment and Training Technology Conference) December 16-18, 1997, at the Sheraton Chicago, Illinois.

To provide information to State Employment Security Agencies (SESAs) on the Risk Analysis Project Advanced Training.

To announce: a) the reauthorization of the Work Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC) Program under the Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997 (P. L. 105-34), the Act, and provide information on the major changes in the program as a result of the new law; and, b) the new Welfare-to-Work Tax Credit authorized under the Act, which is to be administered in the same manner as the WOTC program.

To advise States of the decision of the United States Supreme Court (Court) overturning, with respect to State and local laws, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993 (RFRA) and to rescind Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) No. 28-94.