To ensure that state workforce agencies are aware of the increases in social security survivors and old age retirement annuities and Federal civilian pensions due to annual cost of living adjustments (COLAs).

To provide states with the Program Year (PY) 2005 ACSI Table of Weights

To announce the release of the Special Tabulation of Census 2000 Data on Limited English Proficient Adults, and a Glossary of Translated Workforce Terms. These are planning and resource tools for states and local workforce areas to use in providing services to Limited English Proficient (LEP) groups in those areas.

To provide the Department's interpretation, under the Trade Act of 1974, as amended, and the regulations at 20 CFR 617, of the conditions under which distance learning may be a type of training approvable as classroom training under the TAA program.

The attached checklist updates the status of Training and Employment Guidance Letters (TEGLs) since the last checklist transmitted by Training and Employment Notices 7-01 and 7-01, Change 1.

Copies of TEGLs are available on the Advisory web site at: http://wdr.doleta.gov/directives/.

To provide guidance on the use of funds granted under Section 302(a) of the Social Security Act (SSA) for the administration of state unemployment compensation (UC) laws and to rescind guidance which permitted the de-obligation from a state, and reobligation to Maryland, of a portion of such funds for state-specific services benefiting only the first state.

To update the directory of Federal (civilian) and military agencies that have requested detailed UCFE or UCX benefit payment data which support the Department of Labor’s quarterly unemployment compensation billings.

To notify State Workforce Agencies (SWAs) of a revision to IRS Form 1099-G.

General Administration Letters (GALs) have been eliminated as an advisory series. However, active GALs remain in the system. Attached are listings showing the status of these GALs as of October 1, 2005.

This memorandum outlines interim procedures for the management of mail related to applications in the permanent labor certification program and reflects the decision by the Division of Foreign Labor Certification (DFLC or Division) to postpone certain regulatory and procedural deadlines pertaining to applications affected by Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, and Wilma. DFLC issued guidance for Hurricane Katrina on October 13, 2005. Stakeholders raised certain questions in response to that guidance. Therefore, this guidance replaces and supersedes all prior DFLC hurricane guidance. This guidance will be posted on DFLC’s website and published in the Federal Register.