Purpose: To transmit estimated employer contribution rates for 1995 and 1996. ..TX: Background: The attached tables contain preliminary estimates of unemployment insurance (UI) average employer contribution rates as reported by State agencies. The firs

To transmit the directory of Federal and military agencies that have requested detailed UCFE or UCX benefit payment data which support the Department of Labor quarterly unemployment compensation billings.

To announce the results of the UI Quality Appraisals conducted for FY 1996.

To transmit a revised Directory of Benefit Payment Control (BPC) Staff.

To remind States that Canada is a signatory to the Interstate Benefit Payment Plan via an executive agree-ment with the United States, and that all interstate program procedures and policies apply to claims filed from and against Canada under traditional and remote claimstaking procedures.

To provide State Employment Security Agencies (SESAs) a guide for using RiskWatch software to conduct a UI Risk Analysis.

To transmit the subject computation for State Employment Security Agency (SESA) usage in computing minimum weekly DUA amounts for all major disasters declared during the fourth quarter of FY 1996.

To announce a pilot test of an approach for measuring the accuracy of unemployment insurance (UI) benefit denials, and to solicit volunteers for the pilot.

Notice of availability of the UIS Annual Report, comprised of data reported through UI PERFORMS Benefit Accuracy Measurement (BAM), Benefits Timeliness and Quality (BTQ), and Tax Performance System (TPS) for CY 1998.

To provide tables for Fiscal Year (FY) 1994 through FY 1998 showing estimated FUTA payments attributable to employment in each State and the amounts returned to the States for program administration and benefit payments. Totals for FY 1981 through FY 1998 are also included.