To provide states with instructions for implementing the Families First Coronavirus Response Act, Public Law (Pub. L.) 116-127, specifically Division D, the Emergency Unemployment Insurance Stabilization and Access Act of 2020 (EUISAA).

The Employment and Training Administration (ETA) is providing a renewed form ETA 581 Contribution Operations, for State Workforce Agencies and other applicable grant recipients to document their quarterly Unemployment Insurance (UI) tax program activities.

To convey the Work Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC) Fiscal Year (FY) 2020 funding allotments, including remaining balance to states, and application requirements for State Workforce Agencies (SWA).

To transmit the subject computation for State Workforce Agency usage in computing minimum weekly DUA amounts for all major disasters declared from April 1 - June 30, 2020, (third quarter of Fiscal Year (FY) 2020).

To inform the state and local workforce development system of the policies and priorities that govern the award and use of National Dislocated Worker Grant (DWG) funds, pursuant to the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA), Title I, Section 170.

To provide guidance to states regarding unemployment compensation (UC) flexibilities related to COVID-19.

To revise the status of Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) 9-15 New Expiration Date for Work Opportunity Tax Credit Program Forms Under the Paperwork Reduction Act.

To announce the availability and strongly encourage state workforce agency adoption of Model Unemployment Insurance (UI) State Work Search Legislation to more effectively achieve the rapid reemployment of UI claimants' in suitable work and to support claimants' ability to meet their responsibilities to actively seek work as a condition of UI eligibility.

To provide advance notice to states on the implementation of the revised submittal schedule for states’ submissions of the Biennial SQSP and the Alternate Year SQSPs.

Through this guidance, the U.S. Departments of Labor and Education (Departments) delineate the process for negotiating levels of performance, as required by section 116(b)(3)(A)(iv) of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA). This guidance also provides explanation of the two instances in which a state may be sanctioned for performance failure or for failure to report (section 116(f) of WIOA). Section 116 of WIOA, its implementing regulations, and this guidance govern how the Departments will determine when it is necessary to sanction a state, which is statutorily required by WIOA.