The purpose of this Training and Employment Notice (TEN) is to provide the logistic details for the Spring 2024 BAM Paid Claims Peer Review.

To transmit to states and outlying areas the impact of updated data on WIOA Title I Youth, Adult, and Dislocated Worker program allotments for PY 2024.

To announce the 2024 Unemployment Insurance (UI) Interstate Benefits and Federal Programs (IBFP) Training scheduled to be held on March 12-14, 2024, in Pittsburgh, PA.

To announce the rate of interest that the U.S. Department of the Treasury (Treasury) will charge on Title XII advances during CY 2024.

To provide information regarding the 2024 UI SIDES Seminar to be hosted by the National Association of State Workforce Agencies (NASWA) on March 12-14, 2024, in Pittsburgh, PA.

To ensure states are aware of the Schedule of Remuneration for the UCX program that reflects the military pay increase effective January 1, 2024.
 

To provide a checklist of all currently active ETA advisories as well as a checklist of all ETA advisories rescinded/cancelled since the previously issued checklists.

To ensure State Workforce Agencies (SWA) are aware that employers seeking to hire foreign workers for temporary employment under a supplemental H-2B visa cap for work certified to commence in FY 2024 must contact an American Job Center (AJC) for assistance in recruiting U.S. workers for their job opportunities.

This Training and Employment Notice (TEN) reminds states of the statute of imitations for Federal prosecution of UI fraud and encourages states to submit timely referrals of COVID-19 pandemic era UI fraud cases to the Department of Labor’s (Department) Office of Inspector General (DOL-OIG).

To notify each State Workforce Agency (SWA) that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) will use an Implementing Agreement (IA) and will no longer use a Questionable Employment Tax Practices (QETP) Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to facilitate a SWA’s receipt of QETP data. Consequently, the IRS will terminate all existing QETP MOUs.