To provide instructions for National Farmworker Jobs Program (NFJP) employment and training grantees for preparing and submitting grant plans for Program Year (PY) 2014, and to convey the grant allocations for the program year.

To respond to questions from state workforce agencies and state workforce liaisons related to the October 2013 Federal government lapse in appropriations, or “shutdown,” and administrative funding for relevant programs pursuant to the Continuing Appropriations Act, 2014 (Act).

To provide instructions for National Farmworker Jobs Program (NFJP) housing grantees for preparing and submitting grant plans for Program Year (PY) 2014, and to convey the grant allocations for the program year.

To announce the 2014 UI Integrity Summit that will be held on May 13-14, 2014, in Washington, D.C.

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 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.

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.

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