To announce the Unemployment Insurance (UI) Interstate Benefits and Federal Programs Training Conference scheduled to be held September 4 – 7, 2007, in St. Petersburg, Florida, and to encourage state workforce agency staff participation.

To announce the grant application process and to transmit guidance for the development and management of the PY 2007 Workforce Information grants to states.

To remind State Workforce Agencies (SWAs) of the importance of keeping the ICON Central Listing of Vessels up-to-date. The Central Listing of Vessels assists SWAs’ claims-taking staff when unemployment insurance (UI) claims are filed by maritime workers.

To outline special guidelines as part of the H-2B labor certification process for employers who desire to employ tree planters and related reforestation occupations in the United States.

UIPL 21-07 -- Not Issued

To provide all Senior Community Service Employment Program (SCSEP) applicants with instructions and procedures for conditional grants for Program Year (PY) 2007, beginning July 1, 2007.

To announce the postponement of the Technology-Based Learning (TBL) Regional Forum, scheduled for June 12, 2007 at the FDIC Training Center in Arlington, Virginia.

To initiate the FY 2008 SQSP process and to issue supplemental instructions for the preparation of the FY 2008 SQSP.

To inform grantees of policies regarding PY 2006 State Senior Community Service Employment Program (SCSEP) Coordination Plan modifications and PY 2007 requirements.

To provide Native American grantees with WIA, Section 166, Supplemental Youth Services Program (SYSP) and Comprehensive Service Program (CSP) funding allotments.

To announce upcoming Technology-Based Learning Forums, during which ETA will share its Technology-Based Learning (TBL) Initiative vision, and explore the use, benefits, and challenges of technology-based learning in the workforce investment system to develop the talents of the American workforce in the 21st century global economy.

To announce additions to the schedule for FY 2007 BTQ Nonmonetary Determination Evaluation Training Seminars.

To announce the release and availability of Comparison of State Unemployment Insurance Laws 2007.

This guidance letter updates the procedures states should follow to apply for WIA section 503 Incentive Grants.

To announce the UI National Tax Conference that will be held in San Diego, California, August 13 -16, 2007, to request agenda topics, and to encourage participation in the conference.

To transmit the subject computation for State Workforce Agency usage in computing minimum weekly DUA amounts for all major disasters declared during the third quarter of Fiscal Year (FY) 2007.

To announce three national education and training sessions on performance reporting and management. These training sessions are intended to introduce and clarify the reporting changes contained in the Workforce Investment Streamlined Performance Reporting (WISPR) System, further enhance states’ ability to report against the common measures and provide a venue for discussing policy questions. Attendees will have the ability to raise issues with federal staff and learn what other states and local areas are doing to support integration by targeting multiple programs. The session will also deal with ways to reduce data validation issues in the workforce system by providing targeted training on common issues, and provide information, clarification, materials and tools to participants to support state and local training efforts.

To announce the availability of Regional Innovation Grants, utilizing limited National Emergency Grant (NEG) funds, to state workforce agencies and local workforce investment boards (WIBs) to initiate comprehensive, sustainable, and integrated regional planning using the Workforce Innovation in Regional Economic Development (WIRED) conceptual framework and principles. The activities from this grant will result in a strategic and transformative regional plan that, when implemented, will counteract the effects of events resulting from an economic shock in a region and will prepare workers and businesses to compete and succeed in a global economy.

UIPL 31-92 -- Not Issued

To amend the consolidated list of "acceptable" narrative reasons for separation transmitted in Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) No. 3-95 and UIPL No. 3-95, Changes 1, 2, and 3 to include Force Shaping-Voluntary Separation Payment (VSP) as an acceptable narrative reason for separation.