To inform State Workforce Agencies (SWAs) of the 2009 MAFO National Farmworker and the Monitor Advocate Training Sponsored by the Employment and Training Administration (ETA) Region IV Dallas Office being held in San Antonio, Texas, March 29-April 1, 2009.

To provide states and outlying areas with stimulus allotments under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 to supplement Program Year (PY) 2008 allotments for WIA Title I Adult, Dislocated Worker and Youth Activities Programs, and Employment Service (ES) activities, as required by the Wagner-Peyser Act, as amended, and to provide RES Allotments.

To provide State Workforce Agencies (SWAs) with additional information on the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST) Information Technology (IT) security guidelines.

To provide State Workforce Agencies (SWAs) with guidelines and key dates for the completion of CY 2008 UI BAM paid and denied claims sample cases and the publication of CY 2008 BAM data.

To advise states about the extension of the Emergency Unemployment Compensation, 2008 (EUC08) program.

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (The Recovery Act) was signed into law by President Obama on February 17, 2009. The Employment and Training Administration (ETA) will issue formal guidance to all states within 30 days of enactment for implementation of the Workforce Investment Act (WIA) and Wagner-Peyser funding under the Recovery Act. This notice describes the initial plans ETA has developed for implementing these programs under the Recovery Act. Formal guidance is forthcoming.

To provide an opportunity for comment on proposed changes to the Assurance of Disaster Recovery Capability and the Assurance of Automated Information Systems Security sections within ET Handbook 336.

To advise states of amendments to Federal law providing for unemployment compensation (UC) modernization incentive payments to states, a special administrative transfer to states, relief from interest on advances to state unemployment funds, and the partial suspension of Federal income tax on UC.

To inform State Workforce Agencies (SWAs) of the opportunity to submit a supplemental budget request (SBR) for costs associated with implementation of the new temporary Federal Additional Compensation (FAC) program.

To provide states with instructions for implementing and operating the new temporary Federal Additional Compensation (FAC) program, including fiscal and reporting instructions.

To advise states of temporary changes to the permanent federal-state extended benefits (EB) program.

To announce the release and availability of the Employment and Training Administration’s (ETA) Occasional Paper 2009-7: An Analysis of Unemployment Insurance Non-Filers: 2005 CPS Supplement Results.

To issue the revised federal poverty guidelines for the Senior Community Service Employment Program.

The purpose of this guidance is to announce receipt of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approval of the reporting and administrative forms for the consolidated WOTC Program and transmit the newly revised forms and on-line reporting instructions.

To announce the release and availability of ETA Occasional Paper 2009-3: Evaluation of the Prisoner Re-Entry Initiative, Final Report

To announce the release and availability of the report titled An Evaluation of the Latino Coalition’s Reclamando Nuestro Futuro (Reclaiming our Future) Program.

To announce the release and the availability of report titled Ready4Work: Final Research Report.

To provide checklists of all currently active ETA Advisories as well as checklists of all ETA Advisories rescinded/cancelled since the previously issued checklists.

To advise states of an amendment to Federal unemployment compensation (UC) law that prohibits the reduction of UC due to nontaxable pension rollover distributions.

To advise State Workforce Agencies (SWAs) of their Foreign Labor Certification (FLC) grant allocations for the last 65 days of the FY 2009 Continuing Resolution (CR) in effect October 1, 2008, through March 6, 2009.