To initiate and issue supplemental instructions for the preparation of the FY 2009 SQSP.

To provide states with data analyses that suggest effective ways to improve detection, prevention and recovery of UI benefit overpayments.

To initiate the FY 2009 SQSP process and to issue supplemental instructions for the preparation of the FY 2009 SQSP

To provide state workforce agencies (SWAs) with information about their responsibilities related to advance payments of health insurance premiums available to eligible TAA/TRA recipients as part of the HCTC program.

To transmit the subject computation for State Workforce Agency usage in computing minimum weekly DUA amounts for all major disasters declared during the fourth quarter of Fiscal Year (FY) 2008.

• To provide preliminary FY 2009 dollar and staff year base resource planning targets for UI operations to be used in planning and developing State Quality Service Plans;
  
  
• To provide general guidelines for FY 2009 resource planning; and
  
  
• To explain how base resources were allocated among states.

To provide State Workforce Agencies (SWAs) instructions for implementing the changes to the TEUC program related to displaced airline and related workers.

To respond to questions from states concerning eligibility determinations related to Disaster Unemployment Assistance (DUA).

To solicit the participation of four state UI agencies to test a measure of the reemployment rate of UI claimants.

To provide states with instructions for implementing and operating the Emergency Unemployment Compensation, 2008 (EUC08) program, including fiscal and reporting instructions.