To advise states of the elimination of Initial Interstate Claim Form IB-1.
 

This Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) announces the availability of additional funding to cover ongoing administrative costs related to reporting, data retention, audit-related and oversight activities, efforts to detect, establish and recover overpayments, and financial reconciliation efforts associated with the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA), Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation (PEUC), and Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation (FPUC) programs and the provisions of Section 2105 of the CARES Act for Temporary Full Federal Funding of the First week of Compensable Regular Unemployment for States with No Waiting Week (Section 2105).

To initiate the FY 2025 SQSP process and define additional requirements relevant to the FY.

To provide State Workforce Agencies (SWAs) with advance notice of the upcoming permanent transition of the DV and TPS applications from UIDBMS to UIRS; instructions to submit DV and TPS data to UIRS; and the decommissioning of the DV and TPS applications in UIDBMS effective August 15, 2024.

To inform states of changes made by the Department of Defense (DOD) to the DD Form 214 and 215 (DD-214 and DD-215) series and to provide guidance necessary to properly administer the Unemployment Compensation for Ex-servicemembers (UCX) program.

To provide information to states about FY 2024 UI State Administration base resource allocations, general guidelines for resource planning, above-base funding, and SBRs.

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, 2024 (fourth quarter of Fiscal Year (FY) 2024).
 

To remind states of regulatory obligations and associated promising practices for payment of unemployment compensation and to provide questions and answers on state-administered debit cards.

To provide State Workforce Agencies (SWAs) guidelines and key dates for the completion of the 2024 UI BAM paid and denied claims sample cases and the publication of 2024 BAM data.

To advise states that funding is expected to be available to cover transaction costs for a period of at least the two years after the date the state deploys NIDVO or two years after the date this UIPL is issued, whichever is later. In addition, this UIPL advises states that they must enter into a DSA with the U.S. Department of Labor (Department) by June 28, 2024 to participate in NIDVO with transaction costs covered by the Department.