To provide State Employment Security Agencies (SESAs) with information on new special salary rates for some Federal civilian employees to assist SESA personnel in completing UCFE Form ES-935, Claimant Statement of Federal Civilian Service.

To transmit the revised Federal Schedule of Remuneration (UCX) based on the January 1, 2000, military pay increase.

To announce the publication of Tests and Other Assessments: Helping You Make Better Career Decisions, the second in a series of Testing and Assessment Guides, initiated based on requests from workforce investment programs.

To inform States of a planned study of employers use and assessment of the Work Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC) and the Welfare-to-Work (WtW) Tax Credit.

To announce the reauthorization of the Work Opportunity and Welfare-to-Work Tax Credits under the Ticket to Work and Work Incentives Improvement Act of 1999 (P.L. 106-170) § 505.

To inform SESAs of the Y2K readiness of the LCCC and the LMIBS Interstate Connection (ICON) applications and Orlando Data Center infrastructure.

To summarize the Denied Claim Accuracy Pilot Project and its findings, indicate how to obtain copies of the Evaluation Report on the project prepared by PRAMM Consulting Group, Inc., and outline plans to implement a nationwide denials accuracy measurement program.

To announce the FY 2000 BTQ Nonmonetary Determination Evaluation Training Seminars to prepare State Employment Security Agency (SESA) staff to administer the nonmonetary determination evaluation system.

To give State Employment Security Agencies (SESAs) instructions for reporting Unemployment Insurance (UI) data if the SESA or National Office SUN Computer system is unavailable due to year 2000 compliancy issues or if SESA internal computer systems fail.