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Thursday, May 14, 2009 Wednesday, May 6, 2009 Thursday, April 23, 2009
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Weekly Progress
Source: Agency Financial and Activity Report
as of 2009-05-06
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Financial and Activity Report
Financial Status: |
- Total Available: $15,937,086,446
- Total Paid Out: $11,993,208,821
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Major Actions Taken to Date: |
- Employment and Training Administration (ETA)
- ETA's Office of Apprenticeship continues to provide technical assistance to the General Services Administration (GSA) Legislative Affairs Office as the GSA prepares to award funds totaling $3,000,000 for apprenticeship and pre-apprenticeship programs. This is part of the Department's efforts to renovate and upgrade Federal buildings as required by the Recovery Act.
- ETA's Office of National Response organized and participated in a meeting held in Cleveland, OH on April 29th with Rapid Response coordinators and other officials from states that have Chrysler facilities. The purpose of the meeting was to learn about the states' Rapid Response capacity and need for additional resources to address potential layoffs from Chrysler.
- ETA is currently reviewing applications from New York, Hawaii, and Virginia for their initial 1/3 shares, from Connecticut for its 2/3rds share, and from Minnesota for its 100% share of Unemployment Insurance (UI) Modernization incentive payments.
- ETA has issued a Program Review Outline for Regional Offices to consult when they are doing reviews of the Emergency Unemployment Compensation (EUC) program in individual states. ETA continues to respond to questions from the states through the Regional Offices on the EUC program.
- Indian and Native American and National Farmworker Jobs Program grantees were provided with copies of the Training and Employment Guidance Letter on Recovery Act-funded NEGs and a cover letter that underscores their eligibility to apply for Recovery Act-funded NEGs.
- ETA issued a Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) on Recovery Act-funded National Emergency Grants (NEGs) to the greater workforce community.
- Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA)
- EBSA continues to respond to over 1,400 COBRA inquiries on a daily basis, now almost 62,000 since enactment of the ARRA.
- EBSA now has over 31,000 subscribers to www.dol.gov/cobra who will receive automatic notices of new or updated COBRA announcements with over 1,00,000 total visitors since enactment of the Recovery Act.
- On May 1, EBSA representatives briefed House Staff on the COBRA premium subsidy provisions of ARRA.
- Employment Standards Administration (ESA)
- ESA sent several outreach letters to transit agencies and labor unions offering briefing sessions on 13 (c) certifications with an emphasis on the ARRA grant compliance.
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Major Planned Actions: |
- A conference call is planned with the U.S. Department of Education (DoEd) Assistant Secretary for Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development to discuss DOL and DoEd collaboration on the Data Quality Campaign (DQC) initiative. The DQC is intended to establish a database constructed by linking education and workforce investment data systems, and is being funded by approximately $250 million in DoED Recovery Act funds.
- ETA anticipates the release of a Change 1 to the Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) 12-09, pertaining to the permanent Federal-State Extended Benefits (EB) program, including Questions and Answers on the EB work search.
- ETA anticipates the release of several Recovery Act-related TEGLs in the coming two weeks which will describe: the use of Health Coverage Tax Credit Funds made available by the Recovery Act; Performance Accountability for the Recovery Act; Recipient Reporting Requirements under Section 1512 of the Recovery Act; and National GPRA Performance Goals adjusted for variations in the Unemployment Rate.
- ETA issued two Recovery Act-related Training and Employment Guidance Letters (TEGLs) to the greater workforce community: 17-08 - American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (Recovery Act) Funds Financial Reporting Requirements; and National Emergency Grants Funded with American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 Resources.
- Recovery Act State and Local Workforce Investment Board Readiness Reviews are well underway across the regions. These reviews assess the ability of local boards to disseminate ARRA funds and will continue throughout the month May.
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