Notice of a Change in Status of an Extended Benefit (EB) Period for Alabama., 49402-49403 [E9-23353]
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paperwork and respondent burden
conducts a preclearance consultation
program to provide the general public
and federal agencies with an
opportunity to comment on proposed
and/or continuing collections of
information in accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA
95) [44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A)]. This
program helps to ensure that requested
data can be provided in the desired
format, reporting burden (time and
financial resources) is minimized,
collection instruments are clearly
understood, and the impact of collection
requirements on respondents can be
properly assessed.
In response to the American Recovery
and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), the
Employment and Training
Administration is soliciting comments
concerning state UI agencies’ notifying
UI beneficiaries that they may be able to
obtain training using Pell Grants while
continuing to collect UI and to give
them information about how to apply.
This notice utilizes standard clearance
procedures in accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 and 5
CFR 1320.12. This information
collection follows an emergency review
that was conducted in accordance with
the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
and 5 CFR 1320.13. The submission for
OMB emergency review was approved
on May 8, 2009. A copy of this
Information Collection Request (ICR)
can be obtained from the RegInfo.gov
Web site at https://www.reginfo.gov/
public/do/PRAMain.
DATES: Written comments must be
submitted to the office listed in the
addressee’s section below on or before
November 27, 2009.
ADDRESSES: Submit written comments
to U.S. Department of Labor,
Employment and Training
Administration, Office of Employment
Security, attn: Scott Gibbons, Room S–
4231, 200 Constitution Avenue, NW,
Washington, DC 20210. Telephone
number: 202–693–3008 (this is not a
toll-free number).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
To enable more individuals to obtain
job training while receiving
unemployment benefits, so they can
develop their skills while the economy
recovers, states are strongly encouraged
to widen their definitions of the types
of training and the conditions under
which education or training are
considered ‘‘approved training’’ for
purposes of the state’s UI law.
States are also encouraged to notify
unemployed individuals of their
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potential eligibility for Pell Grants and
to assist individuals with applications.
Pell Grants are awarded based on
financial need and other factors. Many
UI beneficiaries are potentially eligible
for Pell Grants, and the Department of
Education is currently undertaking a
major effort to encourage student
financial aid administrators to use the
discretion available to them in
determining if UI beneficiaries are
eligible for Pell Grants. Through
information dissemination, the
Department of Labor is encouraging
state UI agencies to notify UI
beneficiaries that they may qualify for
Pell Grants and to give them
information about how to apply. States
are strongly encouraged to determine if
their approved training requirements are
appropriate to the current economy.
Post-secondary education and training
are increasingly important for success in
the job market. Periods of
unemployment, particularly in the
current economic climate, provide
opportunities for laid-off workers to
develop new skills, so that employers
will benefit from a skilled workforce
when the economy recovers. In
particular, states are asked to consider
approval of courses at community
colleges with significant job skills
components, courses leading to general
equivalency degrees, courses in adult
basic education, language courses, or
other courses of study, including degree
and certificate courses that are likely to
increase the individual’s long-term
employability.
II. Review Focus
The Department of Labor is
particularly interested in comments
which:
* Evaluate whether the proposed
collection of information is necessary
for the proper performance of the
functions of the agency, including
whether the information will have
practical utility;
* Evaluate the accuracy of the
agency’s estimate of the burden of the
proposed collection of information,
including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used;
* Enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected; and
* Minimize the burden of the
collection of information on those who
are to respond, including through the
use of appropriate automated,
electronic, mechanical, or other
technological collection techniques or
other forms of information technology,
e.g., permitting electronic submissions
of responses.
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III. Current Actions
Type of Review: Extension without
changes.
Title: Pell Grants and the Payment of
Unemployment Benefits to Individuals
in Approved Training.
OMB Number: 1205–0473.
Affected Public: State Workforce
Agencies.
Total Respondents: 53.
Frequency of Collection: Once.
Total Responses: 53.
Average Time per Respondent: 40
hours.
Estimated Total Burden Hours: 2120.
Total Annual Costs Burden: $0.
Comments submitted in response to
this comment request will be
summarized and/or included in the
request for Office of Management and
Budget approval of the information
collection request; they will also
become a matter of public record.
Dated This 23rd day of September, 2009.
Jane Oates,
Assistant Secretary, Employment and
Training Administration.
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Employment and Training
Administration
Notice of a Change in Status of an
Extended Benefit (EB) Period for
Alabama.
AGENCY: Employment and Training
Administration, Labor.
ACTION: Notice.
SUMMARY: This notice announces a
change in benefit period eligibility
under the EB program for Alabama.
The following change has occurred
since the publication of the last notice
regarding Alabama’s EB status:
• Alabama has enacted a retroactive
TUR trigger for their EB program.
Alabama would have triggered on with
the release of state total unemployment
rates (TURs) for January 2009, released
by the Bureau of Labor Statistics on
March 11, 2009. This means their
current EB period began March 29,
2009. In addition, the three month
average seasonally adjusted TUR rose
above the 8.0 percent threshold for a
High Unemployment Period (HUP) with
the release of March TURs on April 17,
2009. As a result, a HUP in the EB
program began in Alabama on May 3.
Eligible claimants will be able to receive
up to 20 weeks of additional benefits.
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Information for Claimants
The duration of benefits payable in
the EB Program, and the terms and
conditions on which they are payable,
are governed by the Federal-State
Extended Unemployment Compensation
Act of 1970, as amended, and the
operating instructions issued to the
states by the U.S. Department of Labor.
In the case of a state beginning a HUP
period, the State Workforce Agency will
furnish a written notice of potential
entitlement to each individual who may
be eligible for increased benefits due to
the HUP (20 CFR 615.13 (c) (1)).
Persons who wish to inquire about
their rights under the program should
contact their State Workforce Agency.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Scott Gibbons, U.S. Department of
Labor, Employment and Training
Administration, Office of Workforce
Security, 200 Constitution Avenue NW.,
Frances Perkins Bldg. Room S–4231,
Washington, DC 20210, telephone
number (202) 693–3008 (this is not a
toll-free number) or by e-mail:
gibbons.scott@dol.gov.
Signed in Washington, DC, this 23rd day
of September, 2009.
Jane Oates,
Assistant Secretary, Employment and
Training Administration.
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17, 2009. As a result, a HUP in the EB
program began in West Virginia on
August 2. Eligible claimants will be able
to receive up to 20 weeks of additional
benefits.
Information for Claimants
The duration of benefits payable in
the EB Program, and the terms and
conditions on which they are payable,
are governed by the Federal-State
Extended Unemployment Compensation
Act of 1970, as amended, and the
operating instructions issued to the
states by the U.S. Department of Labor.
In the case of a state beginning a HUP
period, the State Workforce Agency will
furnish a written notice of potential
entitlement to each individual who may
be eligible for increased benefits due to
the HUP (20 CFR 615.13 (c) (1)).
Persons who wish to inquire about
their rights under the program should
contact their State Workforce Agency.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Scott Gibbons, U.S. Department of
Labor, Employment and Training
Administration, Office of Workforce
Security, 200 Constitution Avenue NW.,
Frances Perkins Bldg. Room S–4231,
Washington, DC 20210, telephone
number (202) 693–3008 (this is not a
toll-free number) or by email:
gibbons.scott@dol.gov.
Signed in Washington, DC, this 23rd day
of September, 2009.
Jane Oates,
Assistant Secretary,
Employment and Training Administration.
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collect up to an additional 20 weeks of
unemployment insurance benefits.
Information for Claimants
The duration of benefits payable in
the EB program, and the terms and
conditions on which they are payable,
are governed by the Federal-State
Extended Unemployment Compensation
Act of 1970, as amended, and the
operating instructions issued to the
states by the U.S. Department of Labor.
In the case of a state beginning a HUP,
the State Workforce Agency will furnish
a written notice of potential entitlement
to each individual who has exhausted
all rights to regular benefits and is
potentially eligible for EB (20 CFR
615.13(c)(1)). Persons who believe they
may be entitled to EB or who wish to
inquire about their rights under the
program should contact their State
Workforce Agency.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Scott Gibbons, U.S. Department of
Labor, Employment and Training
Administration, Office of Workforce
Security, 200 Constitution Avenue NW.,
Frances Perkins Bldg. Room S–4231,
Washington, DC 20210, telephone
number (202) 693–3008 (this is not a
toll-free number) or by e-mail:
gibbons.scott@dol.gov.
Signed in Washington, DC, this 23rd day
of September, 2009.
Jane Oates,
Assistant Secretary, Employment and
Training Administration.
[FR Doc. E9–23354 Filed 9–25–09; 8:45 am]
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Notice of a Change in Status of an
Extended Benefit (EB) Period for West
Virginia.
Employment and Training
Administration, Labor.
ACTION: Notice.
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Employment and Training
Administration
Employment and Training
Administration
SUMMARY: This notice announces a
change in benefit period eligibility
under the EB program for West Virginia.
The following change has occurred
since the publication of the last notice
regarding West Virginia’s EB status:
• West Virginia has enacted a
retroactive TUR trigger for their EB
program. West Virginia would have
triggered on with the release of state
total unemployment rates (TURs) for
April 2009, released by the Bureau of
Labor Statistics on May 22, 2009. This
means their current EB period began
June 7, 2009. In addition, the three
month average seasonally adjusted TUR
rose above the 8.0 percent threshold for
a High Unemployment Period (HUP)
with the release of June TURs on July
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Notice of a Change in Status of an
Extended Benefit (EB) Period for Idaho
Announcement Regarding States
Triggering ‘‘on’’ to the second-tier of
Emergency Unemployment
Compensation 2008 (EUC08)
AGENCY: Employment and Training
Administration, Labor.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY: Employment and Training
Administration, Labor.
ACTION: Notice.
SUMMARY: This notice announces a
change in benefit period eligibility
under the EB program for Idaho.
The following change has occurred
since the publication of the last notice
regarding Idaho’s EB status:
• Idaho has modified its law by
adding a total unemployment rate (TUR)
trigger. As a result, Idaho triggered ‘‘on’’
to a high unemployment period (HUP)
for weeks of unemployment beginning
September 6, 2009, and eligible
unemployed workers will be able to
SUMMARY: Announcement regarding the
Virgin Islands triggering ‘‘on’’ to the
second-tier of Emergency
Unemployment Compensation (EUC08).
Public law 110–449 created a secondtier of benefits within the EUC08
program for qualified unemployed
workers claiming benefits in high
unemployment states. The Department
of Labor produces a trigger notice
indicating which states qualify for this
second-tier of EUC08 benefits and
provides the beginning and ending dates
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Employment and Training Administration
Notice of a Change in Status of an Extended Benefit (EB) Period
for Alabama.
AGENCY: Employment and Training Administration, Labor.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: This notice announces a change in benefit period eligibility
under the EB program for Alabama.
The following change has occurred since the publication of the last
notice regarding Alabama's EB status:
Alabama has enacted a retroactive TUR trigger for their EB
program. Alabama would have triggered on with the release of state
total unemployment rates (TURs) for January 2009, released by the
Bureau of Labor Statistics on March 11, 2009. This means their current
EB period began March 29, 2009. In addition, the three month average
seasonally adjusted TUR rose above the 8.0 percent threshold for a High
Unemployment Period (HUP) with the release of March TURs on April 17,
2009. As a result, a HUP in the EB program began in Alabama on May 3.
Eligible claimants will be able to receive up to 20 weeks of additional
benefits.
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Information for Claimants
The duration of benefits payable in the EB Program, and the terms
and conditions on which they are payable, are governed by the Federal-
State Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 1970, as amended, and
the operating instructions issued to the states by the U.S. Department
of Labor. In the case of a state beginning a HUP period, the State
Workforce Agency will furnish a written notice of potential entitlement
to each individual who may be eligible for increased benefits due to
the HUP (20 CFR 615.13 (c) (1)).
Persons who wish to inquire about their rights under the program
should contact their State Workforce Agency.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Scott Gibbons, U.S. Department of
Labor, Employment and Training Administration, Office of Workforce
Security, 200 Constitution Avenue NW., Frances Perkins Bldg. Room S-
4231, Washington, DC 20210, telephone number (202) 693-3008 (this is
not a toll-free number) or by e-mail: gibbons.scott@dol.gov.
Signed in Washington, DC, this 23rd day of September, 2009.
Jane Oates,
Assistant Secretary, Employment and Training Administration.
[FR Doc. E9-23353 Filed 9-25-09; 8:45 am]
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