To announce two new UI-ICON applications developed in response to: 1) provisions of the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012 for overpayment recoveries; and 2) provisions of the Trade Adjustment Assistance Extension Act of 2011 related to employer charges when employers fail to respond timely or adequately to requests for information.

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Recovery Act) was signed into law by President Barack Obama on February 17, 2009. The Recovery Act is intended to preserve and create jobs, promote the nation’s economic recovery, and assist those most impacted by the recession. Under the Recovery Act, Public Housing Agencies (PHAs) will receive funding to improve the energy efficiency of public housing units across the country. On May 26th Secretary Shaun Donovan of the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis issued a joint letter announcing the establishment of a pilot program to link public housing residents with their local Workforce Investment Board (WIB) and its One Stop Career System. This notice is intended to alert the workforce investment system to the partnership between HUD and the Department of Labor (DOL) and to be prepared to work with representatives from local Public Housing Agencies and connect public housing residents to One Stop Career Centers.

The Employment and Training Administration (ETA) announces the release and availability of the final report titled Assessment of the Workforce System’s Implementation of the Veterans’ Priority of Service Provision of the Jobs for Veterans Act of 2002.

To notify states of upcoming changes to the collection and reporting of data on the ETA 581 Contributions Operations report and the Tax Performance System (TPS) program reviews intended to measure the effectiveness of state SUTA dumping detection and enforcement methods and to solicit state volunteers to test these changes.

To assist State Workforce Agencies or agencies designated by Governors as “Cooperating State Agencies” (CSAs or “states”) to implement the sunset provisions to the Trade Adjustment Assistance Extension Act of 2011 (TAAEA or the 2011 Amendments) by providing operating instructions to apply to adversely affected workers covered by petitions filed on or after January 1, 2014, and identifying prior guidance that CSAs must continue to follow.

To provide initial guidance on the information necessary to effectively implement the reporting requirements included in Section 1512 of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Recovery Act).

To ensure states are aware of the revised Schedule of Remuneration for the UCX program and reflects the military pay increase effective January 1, 2014.

To announce a new Unemployment Insurance (UI) Benefits Operations Self-Assessment Tool for state UI agencies to use in evaluating their UI benefits operations, and to provide the U.S. Department of Labor (USDOL), Employment and Training Administration's (ETA's) guidance to the states on planning for the implementation and use of the tool and reporting of results to ETA.

To promote innovative recommendations by the Secretary of Labor’s Advisory Committee on Apprenticeship (ACA) on the use of Registered Apprenticeship as a critical and timely solution to the nation’s workforce, economic, and education challenges; and to encourage the state, regional, and local leaders and the public workforce system to utilize the vision report as a resource for supporting apprenticeship opportunities in their own communities.

To provide information about using Federal Employees' Compensation Act (FECA) data to prevent and detect overpayments as a result of beneficiaries receiving concurrent or overlapping Unemployment Insurance (UI) benefits, and FECA benefit payments when not allowed under a state's UI law.