TEGL 14-08, Change 1 has five purposes:

• To clarify the period of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (the Recovery Act) funding availability at the local level for the Workforce Investment Act (WIA) Adult, Dislocated Worker, and Youth programs;
• To address recapture and reallocation of unobligated local WIA Recovery Act funds;
• To change the funds transfer limit between Recovery Act Adult and Dislocated Worker programs from 20 to 30 percent;
• To encourage local areas to serve migrant and farmworker youth with Recovery Act youth formula funds; and
• To announce the location of frequently asked questions and answers on the Employment and Training Administration Web site.

This notice announces the launch of the CareerOneStop Worker ReEmployment Portal. The Web site is designed to assist impacted workers following job loss, and to connect laid off workers to needed resources for training, reemployment, career planning, financial and emotional help during the process of job transition. The new ReEmployment portal was launched in conjunction with the ReEmployment Summit held in Baltimore, Maryland in January, 2009 and can be found at www.careeronestop.org/ReEmployment.

To transmit the subject computation for State Workforce Agency usage in computing minimum weekly DUA amounts for all major disasters declared during the third quarter of Fiscal Year (FY) 2009.

To provide State Workforce Agencies (SWAs) with advance notice of distribution of new Sun Server T2000 computer systems.

To advise states of the amended definition of an “eligible TAA recipient” for purposes of the HCTC administered by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).

To announce the release and availability of Comparison of State Unemployment Insurance Laws 2009.

To provide corrected information on the 2009 cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) increases in social security survivors and old age retirement annuities and Federal civilian pensions and to rescind Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) No. 8-09.

Rescinded by UIPL 19-09

The purpose of this advisory is to inform the SWAs that the Employment and Training Administration (ETA) is granting an extension period where employers or their representatives can file WOTC certification requests for new hires using the previously OMB-approved June 2007 ETA Forms 9061 or 9062.

To inform state workforce agencies (SWAs) about plans and the timetable for upgrading the UI-ICON to take advantage of new technologies and better support more diverse state information technology (IT) architectures.