- UIPL No. 12-21 (Issue Date: January 19, 2021)Subject
Implementation of Sequestration under the Budget Control Act of 2011 (BCA) for Mandatory Unemployment Insurance Programs for Fiscal Year (FY) 2021
PurposeTo advise states of sequestration rules for FY 2021 to ensure State Workforce Agencies (SWAs) apply these rules to mandatory Unemployment Insurance (UI) programs. These rules include the application of sequestration on delayed benefit payments for prior FYs and the resulting administrative costs.
ActiveProgram Year:2020Fiscal Year:2021 - TEN No. 16-20 (Issue Date: January 15, 2021)Subject
Submission of a Congressionally required report on the Unemployment Compensation (UC) Recipiency Rate by states receiving Allotment I of the emergency administrative grants under Section 4102(a) of the Families First Coronavirus Response Act, Division D, Emergency Unemployment Insurance Stabilization Access Act of 2020 (EUISAA).
PurposeThe purpose of this Training and Employment Notice (TEN) is to remind states of the requirement to submit a report to certain congressional committees that includes an analysis of the UC recipiency rate in the state, which is a condition of receiving Allotment I of emergency administrative grant funding under Section 4102(a), EUISAA, within one year of the date of enactment for EUISAA.
ActiveProgram Year:2020Fiscal Year:2021 - UIPL No. 28-20, Change 1 (Issue Date: January 15, 2021)Subject
Additional Funding for Identity Verification or Verification of Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) Claimants and Funding to Assist with Efforts to Prevent and Detect Fraud and Identity Theft as well as Recover Fraud Overpayments in the PUA and Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation (PEUC) Programs
PurposeTo inform states regarding (i) the availability of additional funding and how to apply for the funding to cover administrative expenses and solutions that can be used to support the identity verification or validation of PUA claimants; (ii) to assist with efforts to prevent and detect fraud and imposter claims resulting from identity theft in the PUA and PEUC programs; and (iii) to recover fraud overpayments in the PUA and PEUC programs.
ActiveProgram Year:2020Fiscal Year:2021 - TEN No. 14-20 (Issue Date: January 14, 2021)Subject
Planning Estimate for Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) Youth, Adult, and Dislocated Worker Program Allotments for Program Year (PY) 2021
PurposeTo transmit to states and outlying areas the impact of updated data on WIOA Title I Youth, Adult, and Dislocated Worker program allotments for PY 2021.
ActiveProgram Year:2020Fiscal Year:2021 - TEN No. 15-20 (Issue Date: January 14, 2021)Subject
Employment and Training Administration (ETA) Advisory Checklists Update
PurposeTo provide a checklist of all currently active ETA advisories as well as a checklist of all ETA advisories rescinded/cancelled since the previously issued checklists.
ActiveProgram Year:2020Fiscal Year:2021 - UIPL No. 12-01, CHANGE 2 (Issue Date: January 8, 2021)Subject
States' Ability to Exercise Flexibility in Staffing Models for the Performance of Certain Unemployment Compensation (UC) Administrative Activities
PurposeTo provide updated guidance to states regarding activities for which they continue to have flexibility in their staffing model after emergency temporary flexibilities for merit staffing standards expire on March 14, 2021. Additionally, this Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) provides updated guidance regarding the application of the UC confidentiality provisions to such activities. The information in this UIPL about confidentiality supersedes prior guidance on the topic provided in Section 5.b. of UIPL No. 12-01, issued December 28, 2000.
ActiveProgram Year:2020Fiscal Year:2021 - UIPL No. 16-20, Change 4 (Issue Date: January 8, 2021)Subject
Continued Assistance to Unemployed Workers Act of 2020-Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) Program: Updated Operating Instructions and Reporting Changes
PurposeTo provide states with updated guidance for the PUA program, as amended by the Continued Assistance to Unemployed Workers Act of 2020 (Continued Assistance Act) and updated instructions for reporting PUA program activities.
ActiveProgram Year:2020Fiscal Year:2021 - UIPL No. 11-21 (Issue Date: January 7, 2021)Subject
2021 Pay Adjustments for Annual Salary Rates for General Schedule (GS) Federal Employees in 53 Locality Pay Areas
PurposeTo ensure states are aware of the locality-based salary rates for certain Federal civilian employees.
ActiveProgram Year:2020Fiscal Year:2021 - TEN No. 10-20, Change 1 (Issue Date: January 7, 2021)Subject
Extension of the Health Coverage Tax Credit (HCTC) Program for Eligible Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) Recipients and Eligible Alternative TAA and Reemployment TAA (ATAA/RTAA) Recipients or Eligible Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) Recipients
PurposeTo provide information and expand awareness of the extension of the HCTC Program, to advise States in assisting job seekers and workers, and to cancel, effective immediately, Training and Employment Notice (TEN) No. 10-20.
RescindedProgram Year:2020Fiscal Year:2021 - TEGL No. 11-20 (Issue Date: January 7, 2021)Subject
Guidance on Trade-Affected Workers' Withdrawal from Approved Training under the Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) Program
PurposeTo bring attention to the requirements of the TAA Program regulations as they relate to the withdrawal of a trade-affected worker from approved training.
ActiveProgram Year:2020Fiscal Year:2021