To give the status of UIDV implementation, announce the current planning target date for beginning implementation, invite States to participate in UIDV, and provide instructions for performing validation activities.

To advise states of the amendments to Federal law designed to prohibit "SUTA Dumping."

To advise state workforce agencies (SWAs) of a new format for the Handbook for Interstate Overpayment Recovery and request submission of the states` updated sections concerning their overpayment recovery procedures and contact information.

To remind States of the Department of Labor's (Department's) interpretation of the "payment when due" requirement of Section 303(a)(1) of the Social Security Act (SSA), as applied during a continued claim series, and to provide clarification concerning this interpretation.

To announce the schedule and locations of the FY 2001 BTQ Nonmonetary Determination Evaluation Training Seminars.

To transmit the CY 1999 Supplement to ET Handbook 394, Unemployment Insurance Financial Data.

To transmit the subject computation for State Workforce Agency usage in computing minimum weekly DUA amounts for all major disasters declared during the first quarter of fiscal year (FY) 2005.

To provide State Employment Security Agencies with instructions for coding race and ethnicity data in the BAM DCI.

To transmit the entire CY 1999 Supplement to ET Handbook 394, Unemployment Insurance Financial Data, including pages 2,4, and 6 which were inadvertently omitted from previous transmittal..

To remind State Employment Security Agencies (SESAs) of the importance of NAICS coding, to provide an updated implementation schedule, and to define the State unemployment insurance (UI) program responsibilities for NAICS implementation.