To transmit additional guidance to Attachment G, "JTPA Performance Standards", of Training and Employment Guidance Letter No. 4-95, dated February 21, 1996. This Guidance Letter Change provides performance standards worksheets, economic data and instruc

To provide information requested by States and Regions regarding the implementation of Benefits Time Lapse and Quality Measures (BTQ).

To transmit a list of military addresses for SESAs' use in sending notices of claim filing, and subsequent notices of monetary and nonmonetary determinations to the appropriate branch of the military.

To announce the availability and distribution of the new special technology edition of the Capacity Building Update: Preparing Tomorrows Workforce (Summer 1996)

Purpose: To announce the availability and distribution of the new special technology edition of the Capacity Building Update: Preparing Tomorrow's Workforce (Summer 1996)

To transmit new correspondence symbols for the Unemployment Insurance Service.

To provide State Employment Security Agencies (SESAs) with answers to procedural questions for implementing voluntary withholding of Federal income taxes from Unemployment Insurance (UI) benefits.

To provide an interpretation of Section 3309(b)(5) of the Federal Unemployment Tax Act (FUTA) which permits an exception to coverage requirements of Section 3304(a)(6)(A), FUTA, for services performed as part of an unemployment work-relief or work-training program.

To transmit copies of the Program Year 1994 Standardized Program Information Reporting (SPIR) National and State Data Books.

To encourage those State Employment Security Agencies which are collectors of new-hire information to participate in a matching program with the OCSE's FPLS.