To ensure states are aware of the locality-based salary rates for certain Federal civilian employees.

To announce the Department of Labor’s (Department’s) interpretation concerning the application of state finality laws to temporary UC programs created under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, as amended.

To transmit the subject computation for State Workforce Agency usage in computing minimum weekly DUA amounts for all major disasters declared from January 1 – March 31, 2024 (second quarter of Fiscal Year (FY) 2024).

To ensure states are aware of the Schedule of Remuneration for the UCX program that reflects the military pay increase effective January 1, 2024.
 

To ensure State Workforce Agencies (SWAs) are aware of the Federal military retired pay annual COLA provided by the Department of Defense.

To ensure that states are aware that the social security survivors and old age retirement annuities and the Federal civilian pensions annual cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) increased for calendar year (CY) 2024, and to provide the U.S. Office of Personnel Management’s (OPM) COLA information.

To provide a checklist of all currently active ETA advisories as well as a checklist of all ETA advisories rescinded/cancelled since the previously issued checklists.

To ensure State Workforce Agencies (SWA) are aware that employers seeking to hire foreign workers for temporary employment under a supplemental H-2B visa cap for work certified to commence in FY 2024 must contact an American Job Center (AJC) for assistance in recruiting U.S. workers for their job opportunities.

To notify each State Workforce Agency (SWA) that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) will use an Implementing Agreement (IA) and will no longer use a Questionable Employment Tax Practices (QETP) Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to facilitate a SWA’s receipt of QETP data. Consequently, the IRS will terminate all existing QETP MOUs.

This Training and Employment Notice (TEN) reminds states of the statute of imitations for Federal prosecution of UI fraud and encourages states to submit timely referrals of COVID-19 pandemic era UI fraud cases to the Department of Labor’s (Department) Office of Inspector General (DOL-OIG).