To remind grantees to submit their PY 1995 Annual Status Reports for the JTPA Title IV-A program by the September 30 due date, and to provide information on how to obtain the new ASR Edit Check Disk.

To transmit additional guidance to Attachment G, "JTPA Performance Standards", of Training and Employment Guidance Letter No. 4-95, dated February 21, 1996. This Guidance Letter Change provides performance standards worksheets, economic data and instruc

To transmit a list of military addresses for SESAs' use in sending notices of claim filing, and subsequent notices of monetary and nonmonetary determinations to the appropriate branch of the military.

To provide information requested by States and Regions regarding the implementation of Benefits Time Lapse and Quality Measures (BTQ).

Purpose: To announce the availability and distribution of the new special technology edition of the Capacity Building Update: Preparing Tomorrow's Workforce (Summer 1996)

To announce the availability and distribution of the new special technology edition of the Capacity Building Update: Preparing Tomorrows Workforce (Summer 1996)

To provide State Employment Security Agencies (SESAs) with answers to procedural questions for implementing voluntary withholding of Federal income taxes from Unemployment Insurance (UI) benefits.

To transmit new correspondence symbols for the Unemployment Insurance Service.

To provide an interpretation of Section 3309(b)(5) of the Federal Unemployment Tax Act (FUTA) which permits an exception to coverage requirements of Section 3304(a)(6)(A), FUTA, for services performed as part of an unemployment work-relief or work-training program.

To transmit copies of the Program Year 1994 Standardized Program Information Reporting (SPIR) National and State Data Books.

To encourage those State Employment Security Agencies which are collectors of new-hire information to participate in a matching program with the OCSE's FPLS.

To provide guidance on intertitle transfers and respond to questions raised on intertitle fund transfer authority.

To transmit the Department's Publication DLMS-7, dated May 1996, entitled "Temporary Duty Guide for Department of Labor Employees". This publication lists the prescribed maximum per diem rates for the Continental U.S. (CONUS).

To transmit to States additional information regarding AT&T layoffs nationwide.

To provide the 104 grantees that are not active online partners with information on how they can become electronic mail (e-mail) communicators.

To transmit a listing of "Active" DINAP bulletins that grantees need for current program operating purposes.

The purpose of this bulletin is to transmit the updated Directory of Native American Grantees, the Federal Representative Team's Assignment Sheet and a Change of Address form.

To inform grantees of financial management oversight procedures instituted by the Division of Indian and Native American Programs (DINAP), and to encourage grantees to establish and implement regular drawdown schedules when obtaining section 401 funds.

To provide grantees with updated information on the Payment Management System (PMS) subaccounts for PY 1996 funds.

To announce a pilot test of an approach for measuring the accuracy of unemployment insurance (UI) benefit denials, and to solicit volunteers for the pilot.