To provide preparation and submission instructions and convey grant allotments for Program Year (PY) 2021.

To ensure State Workforce Agencies (SWA) are aware that employers seeking to hire foreign workers for temporary employment under a supplemental H-2B visa cap in FY 2021 must contact a comprehensive American Job Center (AJC) for assistance in recruiting U.S. workers for their job opportunities.

To provide INA grantees with Comprehensive Services Program (CSP) and Supplemental Youth Services Program (SYSP) funding allotments for PY 2021 for the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) Section 166 programs, and to notify grantees of the required submission of Standard Form (SF) 424 - Application for Federal Assistance, SF 424A - Budget Information (Non-Construction Programs), and Budget Narrative.

To provide guidance to State Workforce Agencies (SWAs) regarding FY 2021 annual grant allocations for foreign labor certification activities.

To provide SCSEP grantees with PY 2021 allotments and grant application instructions, and dissemination of annual Federal poverty guidelines used in SCSEP eligibility determinations.

To advise states of appropriate circumstances for assessing a monetary fraud penalty and for assessing interest and other collection costs on benefit overpayments created under the CARES Act (Public Law (Pub. L.) 116-136), as amended; and to provide instructions for circumstances under which a state may waive recovery of overpayments, including limited circumstances for permissible use of "blanket waivers."

To provide guidance to states on the proportional distribution methodology for recovering federally funded UC benefits, which are held by banks and financial institutions as a result of suspicious and/or potentially fraudulent activity.

To provide State Workforce Agencies (SWAs) guidelines and key dates for the completion of the 2021 UI BAM paid and denied claims sample cases and the publication of 2021 BAM data.

To provide information to states and outlying areas on WIOA Title I Adult, Dislocated Worker and Youth Activities program allotments for PY 2021; final PY 2021 allotments for the Wagner-Peyser Act ES Program, as required by section 6(b)(5) of the Wagner-Peyser Act, as amended; and the allotments of Workforce Information Grants to states for PY 2021.

To provide information to states about FY 2021 UI State Administration base resource allocations, general guidelines for resource planning, above-base funding, and SBRs.