To transmit the Experience Rating Index (ERI) for States for Rate Year 1996.

To remind the States of the effective date of the termination of the self-employment assistance (SEA) program.

To transmit the revised Federal Schedule of Remuneration (UCX) based on the January 1, 1998, military pay increase.

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 publication and availability of a set of case studies dealing with promising approaches utilized by Job Training Partnership Act or Wagner-Peyser grantees.

To inform Section 401 Indian and Native American grantees of the appointment of a new Division Chief for Migrants and Seasonal Farmworkers.

To advise States of the Department's position concerning the application of State-wide personnel actions such as hiring freezes, shutdowns and furloughs to the UI program.

To advise State Employment Security Agencies that the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has extended approval of the recordkeeping requirement to retain work application and job order information under 20 CFR 652.8 (d) (5).

To distribute three SCSEP resource manuals that evolved from a series of workshops at the National Senior Citizens Education and Research Center's 1997 Annual Directors Training Conference.

To remind States that Federal law limits the payment of UC to periods when an individual has experienced unemployment.