To transmit the subject computation for State Workforce Agency usage in computing minimum weekly DUA amounts for all major disasters declared during the third quarter of Fiscal Year (FY) 2019.

To announce the availability of up to $5 million for Fidelity Bonding Demonstration Grants for Program Year 2018. These grants will enable states to expand their use of fidelity bonds to help persons with criminal records, including ex-offenders recovering from opioid and other drug addictions, obtain employment.

This Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) aligns and streamlines performance indicators and requirements across 15 DOL Employment and Training Administration (ETA) programs to the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) performance indicators, while also rescinding and eliminating outdated performance guidance for these programs in addition to clarifying existing ETA performance accountability policies that changed due to WIOA.

To announce the release and availability of a NAWS national summary report on hired crop workers and associated public-use data files.

To announce the release and availability of final evaluation reports from the evaluation of the Enhanced Transitional Jobs (ETJ) demonstration and the YouthBuild (YB) program and five study briefs from the Institutional Analysis of American Job Centers (AJCs).

To announce the 2019 National Unemployment Insurance (UI) BTQ Review being held May 20-24, 2019, at the U.S. Department of Labor (USDOL), Frances Perkins Building, located at 200 Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, D.C., 20210, and to request that Administrators from selected states ensure that two of their BTQ experts attend.

To provide additional guidance to state workforce agencies concerning: 1) DUA documentation requirements for individuals filing DUA claims; and 2) applying the state law provision(s) for late filing of regular Unemployment Compensation (UC) appeals to DUA appeals.

To advise state workforce agencies of the completion of the Federal State Data Exchange Billing (FSDEB) component of the Federal State Data Exchange System (FSDES) website.

To request that states provide to the Department of Labor (Department), in their submissions under Form MA 8-7, information pertaining to state work search requirements in effect as of October 1, 2018, for conformity purposes.

To announce the 2019 National Unemployment Insurance (UI) BTQ Review being held June 24-28, 2019, at the U.S. Department of Labor (USDOL), Frances Perkins Building, located at 200 Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, D.C., 20210, and to request that Administrators from selected states ensure that two of their BTQ experts attend.