The purpose of this Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) is to provide states with a list of provisions of the Workforce Investment Act (WIA) that have previously been waived or new provisions that have not been waived but are within the statutory waiver authority under the WIA regulations at 20 CFR 661,440. These waivers will provide states with increased flexibility to respond to job seekers and business needs in hurricane-affected areas and areas receiving an influx or evacuees. Included is an explanation of the flexibility provided by the workforce flexibility (work-flex) provisions of the regulations.

To provide guidance to the states in determining and allocating the costs of assessing and collecting state taxes that are collected along with state unemployment compensation (UC) taxes, but are not used solely for UC purposes.

To advise the State Employment Security Agencies (SESAs) and Regional Offices (ROs) of Year 2000 compliancy regarding mainframe computer software and software specifications provided by the UI NO and software provided for the ICON system by Lockheed Martin Integrated Business Solutions (LMIBS).

The purpose of this Training and Employment Notice is to announce the availability of several recently released resources designed to facilitate the coordination of human service transportation systems. These resources were developed under the United We Ride initiative. United We Ride is an interagency Federal initiative that supports states and localities in developing coordinated human service delivery systems. In addition to awarding state coordination grants, United We Ride provides state and local agencies a transportation coordination and planning self-assessment tool, technical assistance, and other resources to help communities succeed.

To announce the Office of Management and Budget’s (OMB) approval of the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) request to collect data on the facilitation of the reemployment of UI benefit recipients and to provide implementation instructions to the State Workforce Agencies (SWAs).

To provide correction for the Attachment, Employment Service (Wagner-Peyser) Final PY 1997 Allotments to States, transmitted by Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) No. 8-96.

To inform State Workforce Agencies (SWAs) of the measurement method and the Acceptable Level of Performance (ALP) for the detection of overpayments measure; to clarify the methods for measuring the average age of pending lower and higher authority appeals; and to clarify the implementation schedule for Tax Quality Measure CAPs.

To provide information on the joint Second Triennial Unemployment Insurance Service (UIS) National Meeting for Unemployment Insurance (UI) Appeals Management and Administrative Staff and the Annual Conference of the National Association of Unemployment In

To transmit the subject computation for State Workforce Agency usage in computing minimum weekly DUA amounts for all major disasters declared during the first quarter of fiscal year (FY) 2006.

To transmit a checklist of current GALs.