This guidance letter updates the procedures states should follow to apply for WIA section 503 Incentive Grants.

To provide state workforce agencies (SWAs) information about the training and career development opportunity for Unemployment Insurance (UI) appeals staff scheduled for June 19 - 22, 2006, in San Diego, California; and to encourage staff participation in the conference.

To inform grantees of the circumstances affecting requirements for the PY 2006 State Senior Employment Services Coordination Plan (State Plan).

To inform states that May 26, 2006 is the revised deadline for submittal of designations of ASUs, as defined in the WIA, for PY 2006 Youth and Adult program allotments.

To provide states and outlying areas with FY 2006 Congressional Recissions for the WIA Adult and Dislocated Worker programs; WIA Title I Adult and Youth Activities Programs Planning Estimates for PY 2006; WIA Title I Dislocated Worker Program Activities allotments for PY 2006; final allotments for PY 2006 public Employment Service (ES) activities, as required by Section 6(b)(5) of the Wagner-Peyser Act, as amended; Workforce Information Grants for PY 2006; and Work Opportunity Tax Credit and Welfare-to-Work (WtW) Tax Credit allotments for FY 2006.

To summarize the UI program’s GPRA performance for FY 2005 and announce the FY 2006 GPRA goals and targets.

To provide a summary of selected ETA 581 data with associated charts and tables for the QE March 31, 2005.

To request Workforce Investment Act (WIA) Section 166 grantees to submit nominations for consideration by the Secretary of Labor for appointment to fill expiring terms of membership on the Native American Employment and Training Council (Council).

To provide adjusted funding levels for Program Year (PY) 2005 allotments for the dislocated worker program under WIA Title I Section 132(c) on recapture and reallotment.

To provide State Workforce Agencies (SWAs) with both additional information on the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST) Information Technology (IT) security guidelines and the software tool to conduct a security self-assessment of unemployment insurance (UI) computer systems.