To advise State Unemployment Insurance (UI) agencies of the need to conduct background investigations on agency or contract staff that use or plan to use Federal Tax Information (FTI) in the performance of their jobs. This Internal Revenue Service (IRS) requirement is designed to ensure appropriate safeguards are in place to protect FTI to the greatest extent possible.

To provide information to states about FY 2017 UI State Administration base resource allocations, general guidelines for resource planning, above-base funding, and SBRs.

The purpose of this Training and Employment Notice (TEN) is to inform States that in January 2018, the Federal Employment Data Exchange System (FEDES) will be temporarily suspended while the Employment and Training Administration (ETA) reassesses the feasibility of FEDES.

To provide information about using Federal Employees' Compensation Act (FECA) data to prevent and detect overpayments as a result of beneficiaries receiving concurrent or overlapping Unemployment Insurance (UI) benefits, and FECA benefit payments when not allowed under a state's UI law.

To announce a new Unemployment Insurance (UI) Benefits Operations Self-Assessment Tool for state UI agencies to use in evaluating their UI benefits operations, and to provide the U.S. Department of Labor (USDOL), Employment and Training Administration's (ETA's) guidance to the states on planning for the implementation and use of the tool and reporting of results to ETA.

To announce and solicit nominations for the Federal-State Unemployment Compensation (UC) Legislative Seminar.

To provide state workforce agencies with information about:

    a.   Preliminary FY 2018 dollars and staff year base resource planning targets for UI operations to be used in planning and developing State Quality Service Plans (SQSP);
    b.   General guidelines for FY 2018 resource planning; and
    c.   The process used by the U.S. Department of Labor (Department) to allocate base resources among states.

To provide further clarification of the Employment and Training Administration's (ETA) definition of the term credential for national YouthBuild program grantees as well as additional guidance on commonly used construction credentials for YouthBuild participants.

To announce the availability of enhanced tools to support implementation of the My Reemployment Plan (MRP) by providing additional information to workforce professionals and improving jobseekers' access to and user experience with MRP. These tools include a companion video series to the My Reemployment Plan for use by jobseekers and a reference guide for use by workforce professionals providing direct services to job seekers in American Job Centers (AJCs).

To notify State Workforce Agencies about the publication of the updated Complaint/Apparent Violation Form (ETA 8429). (See attachment for the updated Form.)