To announce a planned BTQ Nonmonetary Determination Evaluation Training Seminar to be held December 3 – 7, 2007, in Atlanta, Georgia. We expect to offer three additional BTQ seminars during FY 2008. Dates and locations will be announced later.

To announce that Social Policy Research (SPR) will be offering System Building Training sessions to interested States and Local One-Stop Career Center System staff based on SPR's evaluation of the initial One-Stop implementation experience and their "Guide for Practitioners".

To invite state staff participation in two RJM training webinar sessions scheduled to be held November 14 – 15, 2007, and December 5-6, 2007.

To transmit the CY 1996 Supplement to ET Handbook 394, Unemployment Insurance Financial Data.

To provide states guidance on the Employment and Training Administration’s (ETA) revised policy related to incentives and sanctions under title IB of the Workforce Investment Act (WIA) for performance accountability purposes.

To inform the workforce investment system of the launch of the National Fund for Workforce Solutions (NFWS), an initiative that will provide learning and funding opportunities relevant to the workforce investment system. This initiative is funded by the Annie E. Casey, Ford, Hitachi, and Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundations in collaboration with the United States Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration.

To transmit the subject computation for State Workforce Agency usage in computing minimum weekly DUA amounts for all major disasters declared during the first quarter of fiscal year (FY) 2008.

To advise State Employment Security Agencies (SESAs) of a Departmental interpretation of Federal statutes relating to aliens' eligibility for unemployment compensation when satisfactory immigration status is not established through the primary verification process with the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS).

To advise State Workforce Agencies of their Alien Labor Certification (ALC) grant allocations under the FY 2008 Continuing Budget Resolution in effect October 1, 2007, through November 16, 2007.

To add "D. Forestry Workers." to the list of nonagricultural occupations which vary from the standard GAL No. 1-95 procedures and to provide instructions for special processing of applications for those occupations.