To announce the availability of Department-funded operational and technical resources and services to state ARPA grantees and to provide guidance for modifying grants that have been previously awarded to grantees that want to avail themselves of these services.

To provide guidelines for the FY 2023 UI RESEA grants and to invite State Workforce Agencies to submit a RESEA State Plan.

To advise states that the deadline for submitting a grant application for additional administrative costs under the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) program is extended to February 24, 2023, and that the Department has extended the deadline to expend PUA administrative funds from June 30, 2023 to June 30, 2024.

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

To ensure that states are aware that the social security survivors and old age retirement annuities and the Federal civilian pensions annual cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) increased for calendar year (CY) 2023, and to provide the U.S. Office of Personnel Management’s (OPM) COLA information.

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

To transmit the subject computation for State Workforce Agency usage in computing minimum weekly DUA amounts for all major disasters declared from January 1 – March 31, 2023, (second quarter of Fiscal Year (FY) 2023).

To provide updated guidance on the period of performance for grants that promote equitable access to unemployment compensation (UC) programs.

To announce the opportunity for states to receive up to $61 million for PUA administrative costs in addition to those described in Section 4.b.i. of UIPL No. 28-20, Change 4.

To advise states that the deadline for submitting a grant application to assist states with reporting and the detection and recovery of overpayments of certain Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act unemployment compensation (UC) benefits is extended to October 30, 2022.