To announce the publication of the Senior Community Service Employment Program Interim Final Rule in the Federal Register on December 1, 2017.

The purpose of this Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) is to transmit guidelines to State Workforce Agencies (SWAs) on the preparation and submission of the AOP, and to designate the significant MSFW states, the significant MSFW local offices, and the bilingual local offices for PY 2014

To transmit the subject computation for State Workforce Agency usage in computing minimum weekly DUA amounts for all major disasters declared during the second quarter of Fiscal Year (FY) 2018.

To provide an updated directory of Federal agencies that request detailed UCFE or UCX benefit payment data, which supports the U.S. Department of Labor’s (Department) quarterly unemployment compensation billings.

To ensure states are aware that: 1) the social security survivors and old age retirement annuities and the Federal civilian pensions annual cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) will increase for calendar year 2018, and 2) COLA information may be found on the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Web site.

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) 2014.

To provide an update on the Unemployment Insurance (UI) Integrity Center's activities and to announce the launch of the Integrity Center's Suspicious Actor Repository (SAR), the Integrity Knowledge Exchange, the National Integrity Academy, and upcoming Informational Webinars.

The U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (ETA) is pleased to announce the availability of Workforce Board Solutions, a web-based collection of governance resources for State and Local Boards as well as the debut of several new technical assistance products. While these tools and databases have been primarily developed for Board members and staff, the new website and its holdings have value for the wider public workforce system.

To revise the due dates specified for the Statewide long-term projections, the Workforce Information Database (WIDb), and the WIGS 2017 Statewide Economic and Annual Report in both the TEGL and Attachment 1. The references to the due dates for these deliverables are corrected as follows:

1. The Statewide long-term projections due date is corrected by replacing "No 10-year Projections are due in 2018" with "10-year Projections are due one week following June 29, 2018" (TEGL, pg. 4);
2. The Workforce Information Database (WIDb) due date is corrected by replacing "January 8, 2018" with "June 30, 2018" (TEGL, pg. 4);
3. The (WIGS) 2017 Statewide Economic and Annual Report due date is corrected by replacing "September 30, 2018" with "October 1, 2018" (TEGL, pg. 5);
4. The Workforce Information Database (WIDb) due date is corrected by replacing "Within 180 days from the release of a new database version" with "June 30, 2018" (Attachment 1, pg. 3);
5. The Statewide long-term industry and occupational projections (10-year projections) due date is corrected by replacing "One week following June 30, 2017" with "One week following June 29, 2018" (Attachment 1, pg. 3); and
6. The Annual and Economic Analysis Report due date is corrected by replacing "September 30, 2018" with "October 1, 2018" (Attachment 1, pg. 4).

To announce the release and availability of the Significant Provisions of State Unemployment Insurance Laws Effective January 2014.