To provide guidance to State Workforce Agencies (SWAs) regarding FY 2021 annual grant allocations for foreign labor certification activities.

To provide SCSEP grantees with PY 2021 allotments and grant application instructions, and dissemination of annual Federal poverty guidelines used in SCSEP eligibility determinations.

To advise states of appropriate circumstances for assessing a monetary fraud penalty and for assessing interest and other collection costs on benefit overpayments created under the CARES Act (Public Law (Pub. L.) 116-136), as amended; and to provide instructions for circumstances under which a state may waive recovery of overpayments, including limited circumstances for permissible use of "blanket waivers."

To provide guidance to states on the proportional distribution methodology for recovering federally funded UC benefits, which are held by banks and financial institutions as a result of suspicious and/or potentially fraudulent activity.

To provide State Workforce Agencies (SWAs) guidelines and key dates for the completion of the 2021 UI BAM paid and denied claims sample cases and the publication of 2021 BAM data.

To provide information to states about FY 2021 UI State Administration base resource allocations, general guidelines for resource planning, above-base funding, and SBRs.

To provide information to states and outlying areas on WIOA Title I Adult, Dislocated Worker and Youth Activities program allotments for PY 2021; final PY 2021 allotments for the Wagner-Peyser Act ES Program, as required by section 6(b)(5) of the Wagner-Peyser Act, as amended; and the allotments of Workforce Information Grants to states for PY 2021.

This Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) provides guidance on the alignment of reporting requirements in the Participant Individual Record Layout (PIRL) and the ETA-9130, while further providing information on how to document specific scenarios within the submitted data.

This Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) provides guidance to Senior Community Service Employment Program (SCSEP) grantees regarding updates to the priority of service provisions, durational limit waiver categories, and State Plan requirements due to the passage of the Supporting Older Americans Act of 2020, which reauthorized the Older Americans Act (OAA) and included new provisions regarding certain individuals who were formerly incarcerated or under supervision following release from prison or jail.

To highlight the importance of identity verification in ensuring the proper payment of unemployment benefits and to provide guidance to states on required administrative procedures when processing claims and determining UI eligibility in cases where an individual's identity (ID) is questionable.

This Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) provides guidance on certain amendments related to the EB program contained in the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, Public Law (Pub. L.) 117-2.

This Change 1 to the Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) 06-20 conveys the remaining balance for WOTC and explains application requirements for State Workforce Agencies (SWA) based on funding appropriated for Fiscal Year (FY) 2021 through September 30, 2022. Additionally, this TEGL announces 12 states selected to receive additional FY 2021 backlog funding and provides instructions to those states on how to proceed. The remainder of TEGL No. 06-20 remains the same.

To provide adjusted funding levels for PY 2020 allotments for the DW program under WIOA Title I Section 132(c) on recapture and reallotment.

To provide updated procedural guidance to state workforce agencies (SWA) on the WOTC certification process. This Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) and the materials and forms it discusses supersede the guidance outlined in the Third Edition of Employment and Training Administration (ETA) Handbook No. 408, published in November 2002, and its August 2009 Addendum.

To provide states with instructions for implementing the recent statutory changes to the emergency unemployment relief for state and local governmental entities, certain nonprofit organizations, and federally-recognized Indian Tribes provided in ARPA, Public Law (Pub. L.) 117-2, which amends Section 903(i) of the Social Security Act (SSA) (42 U.S.C. § 1103(i)).

This Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) provides guidance about the extension of the FPUC and the MEUC program authorized by Section 9013 of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, Public Law (Pub. L.) 117-2.

This Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) provides guidance about the changes to the PEUC program authorized by Section 9016 of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARPA), Public Law (Pub. L.) 117-2.

To transmit the subject computation for State Workforce Agency usage in computing minimum weekly DUA amounts for all major disasters declared from April 1 - June 30, 2021, (third quarter of Fiscal Year (FY) 2021).

To provide information regarding the virtual 2021 UI SIDES Seminar to be hosted by the National Association of State Workforce Agencies (NASWA) on May 26 - 27, 2021.

To advise states of the enactment of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARPA or Act) (Pub. L. 117-2), specifically Title IX, Subtitle A, Crisis Support for Unemployed Workers, on March 11, 2021, and to provide an overview and instructions for implementing ARPA's UI-related provisions.