The purpose of this Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) is to provide guidance to State Workforce Agencies on changes in the operation of the BAM program, including BAM sample selection and case management applications, as a result of issues arising from the COVID-19 pandemic. These COVID-19-related issues include the unprecedented increases in Unemployment Insurance (UI) program workloads and the new Unemployment Compensation (UC) programs created in the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act (Public Law 116-136), including the Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation (FPUC) program, which provides a federal payment of $600 in addition to the state Weekly Benefit Amount (WBA).

To inform states of the new methodology used to calculate the "on" or "off" total unemployment rate (TUR) indicators to determine when extended benefit (EB) periods begin and end in a state.

The purpose of this Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) is to provide states with the new ETA 227-Overpayment Detection and Recovery Activities FPUC report (referred to as the "ETA 227 FPUC report" in this UIPL) and to provide states with revised reporting instructions for the FPUC program. Section 2104 of the CARES Act, Public Law (Pub. L.) 116-136, authorizes the FPUC program.

To announce a project spearheaded by the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) Center for Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships (CFBNP) supporting the efforts of community-based and faith-based Job Clubs, and to encourage workforce leaders to develop collaborations between the workforce investment system and community-based and faith-based job clubs aimed at improving the quality and quantity of employment and training services to job seekers and unemployed individuals.

This guidance provides information to grant recipients of the U.S. Department of Labor workforce programs, including states, and provides guidelines for grant recipients to use in developing procedures for ensuring the data submitted for performance reporting are valid and reliable.

This guidance letter updates the procedures states should follow to apply for WIA section 503 Incentive Grants.

To transmit the subject computation for State Workforce Agency usage in computing minimum weekly DUA amounts for all major disasters declared from July 1 - September 30, 2020, (fourth quarter of Fiscal Year (FY) 2020).

To announce the release and availability of ETA Occasional Paper titled Findings from a Study of One-Stop Self-Services: A Case-Study Approach

To assist State Workforce Agencies or agencies designated by Governors as "Cooperating State Agencies" (also jointly referred to as "states") by: 1) identifying the FY 2020 Second Distribution of TaOA funding amounts to states; 2) describing the formula methodology used by the Department of Labor (Department) to calculate these amounts; and 3) providing the process for states to request TAA Program reserve funds for TaOA. TaOA includes training, job search allowances, relocation allowances, employment and case management services, and related state administration.

To inform states of updates to the procedures to implement a program to recover unemployment compensation (UC) debt under the “Treasury Offset Program” (TOP) and to provide responses to frequently asked questions about the implementation process.