To respond to questions from states about the impact of sequestration on Emergency Unemployment Compensation (EUC) for fiscal year (FY) 2013.

To advise states about the extension of the Emergency Unemployment Compensation, 2008 (EUC08) program.

To provide State Workforce Agencies (SWAs) with guidelines and key dates for the completion of CY 2008 UI BAM paid and denied claims sample cases and the publication of CY 2008 BAM data.

To provide State Workforce Agencies (SWAs) with additional information on the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST) Information Technology (IT) security guidelines.

To reissue the State UI BAM Operations Guide (ET Operations Guide 400).

This advisory contains instructions for updating the ET Handbook No. 395, 4th Edition, on BAM Paid Claims Accuracy (PCA) and Denied Claims Accuracy (DCA) programs.

To advise states that Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) 09-98 expresses the Department’s position concerning the application of state-wide personnel actions such as hiring freezes, shutdowns, and furloughs to the unemployment insurance (UI) program.

To invite state workforce agencies to submit proposals for a grant to continue or to implement a UI REA program, and to provide guidelines for FY 2013 UI REA grants.

To provide additional guidance to states concerning unemployment compensation (UC) modernization incentive payments, the recent special administrative transfers, and to correct guidance related to relief from interest on advances to state unemployment funds.

To provide corrected information on the 2009 cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) increases in social security survivors and old age retirement annuities and Federal civilian pensions and to rescind Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) No. 8-09.