To transmit the subject computation for State Workforce Agency usage in computing minimum weekly Disaster Unemployment Assistance (DUA) amounts for all major disasters declared from July 1 – September 30, 2026 (fourth quarter of Fiscal Year(FY) 2026).  

This Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) announces the availability of funding to pay for the ongoing costs of administering the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA), Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation (PEUC), Mixed Earners Unemployment Compensation (MEUC), and Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation (FPUC) programs. While these temporary programs have expired, State Workforce Agencies (SWAs) continue to perform work to combat fraud and activities such as reconciling accounts and reports, establishing and recovering overpayments, retaining all applicable data, and processing any workload backlogs.

To advise states that the U.S. Department of Labor (Department) is enhancing its identity (ID) verification services offering via the U.S. General Services Administration’s(GSA) Login.gov and to announce a new funding opportunity to support state-incurred expenses related to participation in these ID verification services.

To provide State Workforce Agencies (SWAs) with an updated notice of the upcoming permanent transition of the Unemployment Insurance Required Reports (UIR) and Benefit Accuracy Measurement (BAM) applications from Unemployment Insurance Database Management System (UIDBMS) to Unemployment Insurance Reporting System (UIRS); to provide instructions to SWAs on how to submit data to UIRS; and to advise SWAs that starting January 20, 2026, all states must transmit their UIR data only through UIRS and that starting February 9, 2026, all states must transmit their BAM data only through UIRS.

To transmit the subject computation for State Workforce Agency usage in computing minimum weekly Disaster Unemployment Assistance (DUA) amounts for all major disasters declared from April 1 – June 30, 2026 (third quarter of Fiscal Year (FY) 2026).

To provide reimbursement instructions to states attending the 2026 National UI Convening occurring March 10 – 11, 2026, at the Frances Perkins Building in Washington, D.C.

To advise states of sequestration rules for FY 2026 to ensure State Workforce Agencies (SWAs) apply these rules to mandatory UI programs.

To transmit the subject computation for State Workforce Agency usage in computing minimum weekly Disaster Unemployment Assistance (DUA) amounts for all major disasters declared from January 1 – March 31, 2026 (second quarter of Fiscal Year (FY) 2026).

To ensure State Workforce Agencies (SWAs) are aware of the social security survivors and old age retirement annuities and the Federal civilian pensions annual cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) increased for calendar year (CY) 2026.

To ensure State Workforce Agencies (SWAs) are aware of the Federal military retired pay annual COLA provided by the Department of Defense.