To notify State Workforce Agencies of the availability of Fiscal Year (FY) 2014 funds for activities that support the prevention and detection of UI improper benefit payments, improve state performance, and address outdated Information Technology (IT) system infrastructures.

To inform states regarding the publication of the final rule for the Data Exchange Standardization as required by Section 2104 of the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012.

To share the interagency support for ensuring students and parents have relevant and timely information to make informed career decisions. This notice is meant to encourage continued coordination and collaboration across the public workforce, adult basic education, career and technical education, and human and social service systems to prepare students for education and career paths.

To disseminate state Acceptable Level of Performance (ALP) targets for the BYE UI integrity performance measure for the calendar year (CY) 2014 performance period and provide information on this measure for future performance periods.

To inform states and local areas about how Workforce Investment Act (WIA) formula-funded youth programs can assist youth who are currently or were formerly in foster care to complete post-secondary education and training by coordinating with state and local Independent Living coordinators to ensure youth have knowledge and access to the John H. Chafee Foster Care Independence Program (Chafee program) Education and Training Vouchers (ETVs), and State Tuition Waivers.

The Employment and Training Administration (ETA) announces the release and availability of a report titled Evaluation of the STEM Initiative.

To provide guidance to state workforce agencies about the requirement in the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2013 (Budget Act) to use the Treasury Offset Program (TOP) to collect covered unemployment compensation (UC) debt.

To announce the release and availability of the Comparison of State Unemployment Insurance Laws 2014.

To inform states of the guidelines for negotiating WIA Title 1B program performance and performance levels for Wagner-Peyser Act funded activities for PY 2014. Once performance goals are agreed upon by the state and the Employment and Training Administration (ETA), they will be incorporated into the state's Strategic Plan. This Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) also announces that ETA will require that all states negotiate performance goals for credential outcomes beginning in PY 2015. Prior to 2015, ETA will work with states to modify the terms of approved common measure waivers. Currently, states are required to report on credentials in their quarterly Workforce Investment Act Standardized Record Data (WIASRD) submissions regardless of whether or not they have a common measure waiver.

The purpose of this directive is to remind all State administrators of Unemployment Insurance (UI) programs of their responsibility: (1) to collect and analyze claimant demographic data for possible indications of systemic discrimination, and (2) to investigate any such indications of potential discrimination that the analyses disclose. This Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) rescinds and replaces UIPL No. 46-89.