The purpose of this advisory is to inform the SWAs about a change in guidance jointly reached by the Employment and Training Administration (ETA) and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). ETA and IRS have jointly agreed to a number of processing changes that will allow the states to accept and process all ARRA certification requests submitted between January 1, 2009 and October 17, 2009, and beyond October 17, provided certain conditions are met.

This notice announces the Survey about the Use of Technical Assistance by State and Local Workforce Systems ("Technical Assistance Survey") and encourages responses from public workforce system representatives who receive the survey. The Employment and Training Administration (ETA) will survey samples of state workforce agency directors, state unemployment insurance agency directors, local workforce investment board (LWIB) directors, and ETA competitive grantees. The survey will ask about the types of TA available, the manner the TA is accessed, uses of the TA, and actions taken as a result of the TA. This information will contribute to a report on the extent of and type of use of TA in the workforce system.

To provide state workforce agencies (SWAs) responsible for management of the WOTC Program with funding allotments for the period October 1, 2009 through September 30, 2010.

To inform Employment and Training Administration (ETA) staff and the public workforce system of, and encourage workforce system participation in, the military services' Capstone activities and other outreach to provide employment services to Transitioning Service Members (TSMs), including eligible National Guard and Reserve members being separated or discharged from active duty.

To provide information about the 2019 UI SIDES Seminar sponsored by the National Association of State Workforce Agencies (NASWA) on April 2-4, 2019, in Nashville, Tennessee.

To advise states of the extension of Emergency Unemployment Compensation, 2008 (EUC08) and the Federal Additional Compensation (FAC) programs, and the extension of the temporary provisions for the Federal-State Extended Benefits (EB) program.

The purpose of this Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) is to provide guidance to Senior Community Service Employment Program (SCSEP) grantees for modifying unified, integrated, and stand-alone State Plans that were approved in 2012.

To transmit a revision of the Benefits portion of the UI DV Handbook, ET Handbook No. 361.

To announce the release and availability of the Significant Provisions of State Unemployment Insurance Laws Effective July 2014.

To provide guidance to states on the upcoming quarterly WIASRD submission required by the Employment and Training Administration (ETA) in its Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) 24-08. Four key areas are addressed in this document: (1) the change in the WIASRD reporting frequency from annual to quarterly; (2) the change in the WIASRD submission to include participant files; (3) the process for submitting the quarterly data beginning with the 3rd quarter of Program Year (PY) 2009; and (4) updates on the WIASRD edit checks to account for participant data.