Guidance Search
The Department of Labor provides this guidance search tool as a single, searchable location where users may search for guidance issued by any of the Department’s agencies, including significant guidance documents under Executive Order 12866. Individual guidance documents are maintained on the various agency websites, and if you know what agency you are looking for, you may also find guidance by navigating directly to that agency’s website. The Code of Federal Regulations and the Federal Register, which are not maintained by the Department, also include some of the Department’s interpretations of law and similar material.
OMB’s Final Bulletin for Agency Good Guidance Practices establishes policies and procedures for the development, issuance, and use of significant guidance documents by Executive Branch departments, including requiring that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor. Petitions should identify the specific guidance document by name and include your reason(s) for the request.
On January 20, 2021, President Biden issued the “Executive Order on Revocation of Certain Executive Orders Concerning Federal Regulation.” In response, the Department issued a final rule January 27, 2021 to rescind its August 28, 2020 rule on guidance documents.
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Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) No. 02-25 provides 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).
Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) No. 17-24 announces the availability of additional funding to cover ongoing administrative costs related to reporting, data retention, audit-related and oversight activities, efforts to detect, establish and recover overpayments, and financial reconciliation efforts associated with the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA), Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation (PEUC), and Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation (FPUC) programs and the provisions of Section 2105 of the CARES Act for Temporary Full Federal Funding of the First week of Compensable Regular Unemployment for States with No Waiting Week (Section 2105).
Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) No. 20-20, Change 1, provides states with instructions for reconciling funding under Section 2105 of the CARES Act, as amended: Temporary Full Federal Funding of the First Week of Compensable Regular Unemployment for States with No Waiting Week.
Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) No. 05-24 announces the Department of Labor’s (Department’s) interpretation concerning the application of state finality laws to temporary UC programs created under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, as amended.
Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) No. 20-22, Change 1 announces the end of the application period for STC grants under Section 2110(g) of the CARES Act effective June 3, 2023.
Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) No. 06-23 informs states regarding the availability of additional funding to support states’ participation and correspondence with the U.S. Department of Labor (Department), Employment and Training Administration’s (ETA’s) outreach efforts regarding ongoing CARES Act program activity, commonly referred to as ETA’s “well-defined ask”.
Unemployment Insurance Program Letter No. 28-20, Change 5 advises states that the deadline for submitting a grant application to assist states with reporting and the detection and recovery of overpayments of certain Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act unemployment compensation (UC) benefits is extended to October 30, 2022.
Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) No. 28-20, Change 4 provides states with information on existing sources of administrative funding to resolve outstanding items from the expired Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act unemployment compensation (UC) programs and to announce up to $225 million for administrative costs related to reporting and overpayment detection and recovery activities under certain CARES Act UC programs.
Unemployment Insurance Program Letter No. 20-21, Change 1 provides additional instructions for circumstances under which a state may waive recovery of overpayments under the CARES Act Unemployment Compensation (UC) programs, including elaborating on the criteria for waiving recovery of overpayments where an individual is without fault on an individual, case-by-case basis and expanding the existing limited scenarios for permissible use of “blanket waivers,” and reminds states that recovery activities for fraudulent overpayments may never be waived. This Unemployment Insurance Program Letter also describes the required collection activities for overpayments under the CARES Act UC programs which are not eligible for a waiver of recovery.
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