To provide Senior Community Service Employment Program (SCSEP) grantees with information about the statutory exemption of SCSEP wages for purposes of determining income eligibility for Federal housing programs and Food Stamps.

To explain the measure used to indicate performance in meeting the GPRA goal of facilitating the reemployment of UI beneficiaries and to give the baseline value and the FY 2007 target for this performance indicator.

To announce changes to the advisory system (formerly called the directives system), used by ETA to communicate guidance and information to the states, grant recipients, and other interested parties.

To provide revisions and clarification to technical guidance previously issued to states for reporting participant data required under Title 1B of the Workforce Investment Act. Additionally, to notify states that in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act, OMB has granted a 90 day extension to this reporting packet to allow for the collection of data on the quarterly and annual reports, and the WIASRD. This action extends the reporting packet to January 31, 2002.

To provide instructions to states for modifying their State Strategic Plans for Title I of the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (WIA) and the Wagner-Peyser Act (“the State Plan”) for years three and four of the current five-year planning cycle to ensure that states have approved plans in place to receive formula allotments; and to provide instructions to states for extending existing waivers and requesting new waivers. The deadline for these submissions is April 1, 2007.

To transmit guidance and instruction for submitting state performance reports required under the Act. Final submissions must be received by December 1, 2001. Contents of these reports will be released to the appropriate Congressional committees and the public in both print format and on ETA¿s Website.

To issue the revised federal poverty guidelines for the Senior Community Service Employment Program.

To update guidance to reflect the processing of H-2A applications through ETA’s National Processing Centers and provide clarification regarding the information employers must report to State Workforce Agencies regarding worker abandonment, rejection or termination.

To transmit information regarding businesses and individuals affected by the activation of reservists in the U.S. Armed Forces.