To announce the release and availability of the ETA Occasional Paper 2004-08: Personal Reemployment Accounts: Simulations for Planning Implementation.

To inform states of the Employment and Training Administration`s (ETA) intent to publish in the Federal Register proposed revisions to the Planning Guidance and Instructions for Submission of the Strategic Five-Year Plan for Title I of the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 and the Wagner-Peyser Act as well as Workforce Investment Act Unified Planning Guidance.

To inform State Workforce Agencies(SWAs) of the 2005 Monitor Advocate Training being held in Garden Grove, California, March 14-17, 2005

To transmit information on the Federal military retired pay annual cost of living adjustments (COLAs).

To delineate the policy changes in the SCSEP income guidelines.

To provide the following information for FY 2005: UI State Administration base resource allocations, general guidelines for resource planning, above-base funding and SBRs.

To transmit the updated Agricultural and Food Processing Clearance Order, ETA Form 790 and instructions.

To transmit the subject computation for State Workforce Agency usage in computing minimum weekly DUA amounts for all major disasters declared during the second quarter of fiscal year (FY) 2005.

To transmit the revised Federal Schedule of Remuneration for the UCX program based on the January 1, 2005, military pay increase.

To announce the availability of the Performance Enhancement Project (PEP) on-line tutorial for WIA performance measures, in which is designed to explain WIA performance measures in a simple and easy to understand manner and to show the effect of the actions of program staff on reported performance outcomes.