To announce the 2019 National Unemployment Insurance (UI) BTQ Review being held June 24-28, 2019, at the U.S. Department of Labor (USDOL), Frances Perkins Building, located at 200 Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, D.C., 20210, and to request that Administrators from selected states ensure that two of their BTQ experts attend.

To announce the 2019 National Unemployment Insurance (UI) BTQ Review being held May 20-24, 2019, at the U.S. Department of Labor (USDOL), Frances Perkins Building, located at 200 Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, D.C., 20210, and to request that Administrators from selected states ensure that two of their BTQ experts attend.

To provide information about the 2019 UI SIDES Seminar sponsored by the National Association of State Workforce Agencies (NASWA) on April 2-4, 2019, in Nashville, Tennessee.

To support the Department of Labor's (DOL) goal to expand the capacity of the American Job Center (AJC) network to serve persons receiving Social Security disability benefits, this Training and Employment Notice (TEN) notifies the workforce system about the Social Security Administration's (SSA) Ticket to Work program's new administrative processes for public workforce employment networks (EN). This TEN replaces TEN No. 02-14, Receiving Ticket to Work Payments as an Employment Network.

To bring attention to the revised Federal poverty guidelines for administrators of the SCSEP.

To assist State Workforce Agencies (SWAs) or agencies designated by Governors as "Cooperating State Agencies" (CSAs) (also jointly referred to as "States," "Recipients," "Grantees," "Applicant," or "You") in gaining access to FY 2019 TAA Program TaOA funds by completing and submitting Standard Form (SF) 424, Application for Federal Assistance, through www.grants.gov.

To provide information to states about FY 2019 UI State Administration base resource allocations, general guidelines for resource planning, above-base funding, and SBRs.

To assist State Workforce Agencies or agencies designated by Governors as "Cooperating State Agencies" (also jointly referred to as "states") by identifying the FY 2019 Initial Allocation of TaOA funding amounts to states; describing the formula methodology used by the Department of Labor (Department) to calculate these amounts; and providing the process for states to request TAA Program reserve funds for TaOA. TaOA includes training, job search allowances, relocation allowances, employment and case management services, and related state administration.

To announce the rate of interest that the U.S. Department of the Treasury (Treasury) will charge on Title XII advances during CY 2019.

To convey the Work Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC) Fiscal Year (FY) 2019 grant funding allotments and application requirements for the State Workforce Development Agencies, also known as State Workforce Agencies (SWA).