To notify State Workforce Agencies (SWAs) of the availability of Fiscal Year (FY) 2009 funds for technology-based overpayment prevention, detection, and collection infrastructure investments to support integrity-related activities.

To respond to further questions from state workforce agencies and to provide guidance related to claims filed by furloughed workers during the October 1-16, 2013, Federal government lapse in appropriations, or “shutdown,” and administrative funding for the program pursuant to the Continuing Appropriations Act, 2014.

To (1) advise states of the Department of Labor’s (Department’s) revised position for determining if amounts are available for the payment of unemployment compensation (UC) for purposes of obtaining a Title XII advance and to (2) provide procedures for establishing Administrative Subaccounts in the state’s account in the Unemployment Trust Fund (UTF).

To notify states of upcoming changes to the collection and reporting of data on the ETA 581 Contributions Operations report and the Tax Performance System (TPS) program reviews intended to measure the effectiveness of state SUTA dumping detection and enforcement methods and to solicit state volunteers to test these changes.

To ensure states are aware of the revised Schedule of Remuneration for the UCX program and reflects the military pay increase effective January 1, 2014.

To announce a new Unemployment Insurance (UI) Benefits Operations Self-Assessment Tool for state UI agencies to use in evaluating their UI benefits operations, and to provide the U.S. Department of Labor (USDOL), Employment and Training Administration's (ETA's) guidance to the states on planning for the implementation and use of the tool and reporting of results to ETA.

To provide information about using Federal Employees' Compensation Act (FECA) data to prevent and detect overpayments as a result of beneficiaries receiving concurrent or overlapping Unemployment Insurance (UI) benefits, and FECA benefit payments when not allowed under a state's UI law.

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

To provide information to states about FY 2017 UI State Administration base resource allocations, general guidelines for resource planning, above-base funding, and SBRs.

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 2014, and 2) COLA information may be found on the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Web site.