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 2018, and 2) COLA information may be found on the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Web site.

To transmit the subject computation for State Workforce Agency usage in computing minimum weekly DUA amounts for all major disasters declared during the third quarter of Fiscal Year (FY) 2014.

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 ensure states are aware of the locality-based salary rates for certain Federal civilian employees.

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 2014 UI REA grants.

To remind states to provide to the Department of Labor (Department), in their submissions under Form MA 8-7, information pertaining to state work search requirements in effect as of January 1, 2014, for conformity purposes.

To transmit the subject computation for State Workforce Agency usage in computing minimum weekly DUA amounts for all major disasters declared during the third quarter of Fiscal Year (FY) 2018.

To provide information to State Workforce Agencies (SWAs) about the application of sequestration in Fiscal Year (FY) 2018, how the U.S. Department of Labor (Department) will apply sequestration to mandatory Unemployment Insurance (UI) programs and on delayed benefit payments from prior fiscal years, and the resulting administrative costs.

The purpose of this directive is to remind all State administrators of Unemployment Insurance (UI) programs of their responsibility: (1) to collect and analyze claimant demographic data for possible indications of systemic discrimination, and (2) to investigate any such indications of potential discrimination that the analyses disclose. This Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) rescinds and replaces UIPL No. 46-89.

To provide guidance to state workforce agencies about the requirement in the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2013 (Budget Act) to use the Treasury Offset Program (TOP) to collect covered unemployment compensation (UC) debt.