- UIPL No. 28-20, Change 1 (Issue Date: January 15, 2021)Subject
Additional Funding for Identity Verification or Verification of Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) Claimants and Funding to Assist with Efforts to Prevent and Detect Fraud and Identity Theft as well as Recover Fraud Overpayments in the PUA and Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation (PEUC) Programs
PurposeTo inform states regarding (i) the availability of additional funding and how to apply for the funding to cover administrative expenses and solutions that can be used to support the identity verification or validation of PUA claimants; (ii) to assist with efforts to prevent and detect fraud and imposter claims resulting from identity theft in the PUA and PEUC programs; and (iii) to recover fraud overpayments in the PUA and PEUC programs.
ActiveProgram Year:2020Fiscal Year:2021 - TEN No. 14-20 (Issue Date: January 14, 2021)Subject
Planning Estimate for Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) Youth, Adult, and Dislocated Worker Program Allotments for Program Year (PY) 2021
PurposeTo transmit to states and outlying areas the impact of updated data on WIOA Title I Youth, Adult, and Dislocated Worker program allotments for PY 2021.
ActiveProgram Year:2020Fiscal Year:2021 - TEN No. 15-20 (Issue Date: January 14, 2021)Subject
Employment and Training Administration (ETA) Advisory Checklists Update
PurposeTo provide a checklist of all currently active ETA advisories as well as a checklist of all ETA advisories rescinded/cancelled since the previously issued checklists.
ActiveProgram Year:2020Fiscal Year:2021 - UIPL No. 12-01, CHANGE 2 (Issue Date: January 8, 2021)Subject
States' Ability to Exercise Flexibility in Staffing Models for the Performance of Certain Unemployment Compensation (UC) Administrative Activities
PurposeTo provide updated guidance to states regarding activities for which they continue to have flexibility in their staffing model after emergency temporary flexibilities for merit staffing standards expire on March 14, 2021. Additionally, this Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) provides updated guidance regarding the application of the UC confidentiality provisions to such activities. The information in this UIPL about confidentiality supersedes prior guidance on the topic provided in Section 5.b. of UIPL No. 12-01, issued December 28, 2000.
ActiveProgram Year:2020Fiscal Year:2021 - UIPL No. 16-20, Change 4 (Issue Date: January 8, 2021)Subject
Continued Assistance to Unemployed Workers Act of 2020-Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) Program: Updated Operating Instructions and Reporting Changes
PurposeTo provide states with updated guidance for the PUA program, as amended by the Continued Assistance to Unemployed Workers Act of 2020 (Continued Assistance Act) and updated instructions for reporting PUA program activities.
ActiveProgram Year:2020Fiscal Year:2021 - UIPL No. 11-21 (Issue Date: January 7, 2021)Subject
2021 Pay Adjustments for Annual Salary Rates for General Schedule (GS) Federal Employees in 53 Locality Pay Areas
PurposeTo ensure states are aware of the locality-based salary rates for certain Federal civilian employees.
ActiveProgram Year:2020Fiscal Year:2021 - TEN No. 10-20, Change 1 (Issue Date: January 7, 2021)Subject
Extension of the Health Coverage Tax Credit (HCTC) Program for Eligible Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) Recipients and Eligible Alternative TAA and Reemployment TAA (ATAA/RTAA) Recipients or Eligible Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) Recipients
PurposeTo provide information and expand awareness of the extension of the HCTC Program, to advise States in assisting job seekers and workers, and to cancel, effective immediately, Training and Employment Notice (TEN) No. 10-20.
ActiveProgram Year:2020Fiscal Year:2021 - TEGL No. 11-20 (Issue Date: January 7, 2021)Subject
Guidance on Trade-Affected Workers' Withdrawal from Approved Training under the Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) Program
PurposeTo bring attention to the requirements of the TAA Program regulations as they relate to the withdrawal of a trade-affected worker from approved training.
ActiveProgram Year:2020Fiscal Year:2021 - UIPL No. 15-20, Change 3 (Issue Date: January 5, 2021)Subject
Continued Assistance for Unemployed Workers (Continued Assistance) Act of 2020 - Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation (FPUC) Program Reauthorization and Modification and Mixed Earners Unemployment Compensation (MEUC) Program Operating, Reporting, and Financial Instructions
PurposeThe purpose of this Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) is to provide guidance about the reauthorization and modification of the FPUC program and guidance about the new MEUC program authorized in sections 203 and 261 of the Continued Assistance Act, Public Law (Pub. L.) 116-260, respectively.
ActiveProgram Year:2020Fiscal Year:2021 - TEN No. 13-20 (Issue Date: January 4, 2021)Subject
Advancing a One Workforce Vision and Strategy
PurposePromote adoption of a One Workforce strategy by State Workforce Agencies, State and Local Workforce Development Boards, American Job Centers (AJCs), and Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) partner programs and stakeholders.
ActiveProgram Year:2020Fiscal Year:2021