To ensure that states are aware that the social security survivors and old age retirement annuities and the Federal civilian pensions annual cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) increased for calendar year (CY) 2025, and to provide the U.S. Office of Personnel Management’s (OPM) COLA information.

To announce the release of the new POA Exchange by the National Association of State Workforce Agencies’ (NASWA) SIDES.

To convey the Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 initial funding allotments for WOTC application requirements for State Workforce Agencies (SWA), based on funding appropriated through a continuing resolution through December 20, 2024.  
 

To announce the availability of up to $925,200 for National Farmworker Jobs Program (NFJP) Youth Grants.
 

To provide an updated version of the Department of Labor's Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) Section 188 Disability Reference Guide to American Job Center (AJC) programs and other partners. The guide provides promising practices that correlate with specific nondiscrimination and equal opportunity requirements in Section 188 of WIOA and its implementing regulations.

To advise states that the deadline for accepting DUA applications has changed from 30 days to 60 days, for all disasters declared after March 23, 2024.

To inform the public workforce system and other entities that receive federal financial assistance under Title I of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA), as well as education and training programs and activities receiving Department of Labor (DOL) financial assistance on how to: (1) prevent and address gender-based violence (GBV), which can be a form of sex discrimination prohibited by nondiscrimination and equal opportunity laws applicable to the workforce development system, and (2) reduce barriers that GBV survivors face in seeking jobs and participating in covered programs and activities.

To publish FY 2024 state-level RESEA outcome payment performance targets for the reemployment and reduced UI duration of RESEA participants and to provide states with a midyear analysis of their performance levels compared against these targets.

To provide states with instructions for requesting continued workload-based administrative funding for CARES Act benefit programs. The programs covered under this Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) include Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation (PEUC), Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA), Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation (FPUC), and Mixed Earners Unemployment Compensation (MEUC).

To inform states of the discontinuation of the CWC 02-12 application in UI-ICON and provide an alternative method for paying states to communicate to the transferring state(s) an employer’s failure to timely or adequately respond to State Workforce Agencies’ (SWA) requests for information relating to a CWC.