To provide states with the Program Year (PY 2004) ACSI Table of Weights.

To announce the reauthorization of the Work Opportunity Tax Credit and the Welfare-to-Work Tax Credit under the Working Families Tax Relief Act of 2004 (P.L. 108-311) and to transmit a policy clarification regarding acceptance and processing of certification requests for new hires who work in one state but received public assistance benefits in a different state.

To inform the state workforce agencies (SWAs) of their responsibility to provide certain services under the TAA for Farmers program established by the Trade Act of 2002 and administered by the USDA.

To inform state workforce agencies (SWA) of updated addresses for the Defense Finance and Accounting Service for use in verifying military pensions and annuitant pay information.

The Employment and Training Administration (ETA) has contracted with Social Policy Research Associates (SPRA) and its subcontractor, Mathematica Policy Research, to conduct an evaluation of the Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) program. This Training and Employment Guidance Letter is to inform state agencies that SPRA will be contacting 25 randomly selected states to solicit their participation in the study.

To announce the Office of Management and Budget's approval to extend the collection of information for the Income and Eligibility Verification System.

To inform High Growth Job Training Initiative ( High Growth ) grantees of the November transition to the Employment and Training Administration's (ETA) On-Line Electronic Reporting System for the SF 269 Financial Status Report

To announce the availability of Workforce Investment Act (WIA) research conducted by the Administrative Data Research and Evaluation Project (ADARE)

To amend the operating instructions issued in Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) No. 2-03 and 2-03, Change1, to permit certain worker groups previously certified under the Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) program to now request ATAA program certification.