To announce the release and availability of the Significant Provisions of State Unemployment Insurance Laws Effective January 2014.

The U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (ETA) is pleased to announce the availability of Workforce Board Solutions, a web-based collection of governance resources for State and Local Boards as well as the debut of several new technical assistance products. While these tools and databases have been primarily developed for Board members and staff, the new website and its holdings have value for the wider public workforce system.

To provide an updated directory of Federal agencies that request detailed UCFE or UCX benefit payment data, which supports the U.S. Department of Labor’s (Department) quarterly unemployment compensation billings.

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) 2014.

The purpose of this Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) is to transmit guidelines to State Workforce Agencies (SWAs) on the preparation and submission of the AOP, and to designate the significant MSFW states, the significant MSFW local offices, and the bilingual local offices for PY 2014

To announce the 2014 Unemployment Insurance (UI) Interstate Benefits and Federal Programs (IBFP) Training Conference scheduled to be held April 29-30, 2014, in Madison, Wisconsin, and encourage state administrators to send their Interstate/Federal Program Coordinators and Interstate Connection (ICON) programmer(s) to the conference

To announce the rate of interest that the U.S. Department of the Treasury (Treasury) will charge on Title XII advances during CY 2014.

To provide checklists of all currently active ETA Advisories as well as checklists of all ETA Advisories rescinded/cancelled since the previously issued checklists.

To inform the workforce community of the Office of Management and Budget’s (OMB) consolidation and publication of the Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements for Federal Awards; Final Rule on December 26, 2013.

To assist State Workforce Agencies or agencies designated by Governors as “Cooperating State Agencies” (CSAs) (also jointly referred to as “states”) in administering the TAA program by identifying the FY 2014 Initial Allocation amounts to states and describing the formula methodology the Department of Labor (Department or We) used to calculate these amounts; and to describe the process for states to request TAA program reserve funds for training, employment and case management services, job search allowances, relocation allowances, and related state administration.