To advise State Unemployment Insurance (UI) agencies of the need to conduct background investigations on agency or contract staff that use or plan to use Federal Tax Information (FTI) in the performance of their jobs. This Internal Revenue Service (IRS) requirement is designed to ensure appropriate safeguards are in place to protect FTI to the greatest extent possible.

To transmit the fifth edition of ETA Handbook No. 401, Unemployment Insurance (UI) Reports Handbook.

To inform State Workforce Agencies (SWAs) and State Monitor Advocates (SMAs) of the 2014 “National Migrant and Seasonal Farmworker State Monitor Advocate Training,” sponsored by the Employment and Training Administration (ETA). The training will be held in Washington, D.C. at the U.S. Department of Labor from May 20 to May 22, 2014.

To provide an updated directory of Federal agencies that request detailed Unemployment Compensation for Federal Employees (UCFE) or Unemployment Compensation for Ex-Servicemembers (UCX) benefit payment data, which support the United States Department of Labor's (Department) quarterly unemployment compensation billings.

To inform the workforce community of the Office of Management and Budget’s (OMB) consolidation and publication of the Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements for Federal Awards; Final Rule on December 26, 2013.

To provide checklists of all currently active ETA Advisories as well as checklists of all ETA Advisories rescinded/cancelled since the previously issued checklists.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 announce the release and availability of the Significant Provisions of State Unemployment Insurance Laws Effective July 2017.

To announce the 2014 Unemployment Insurance (UI) Interstate Benefits and Federal Programs (IBFP) Training Conference scheduled to be held April 29-30, 2014, in Madison, Wisconsin, and encourage state administrators to send their Interstate/Federal Program Coordinators and Interstate Connection (ICON) programmer(s) to the conference

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

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.