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and Research, Employee Benefits 

Security Administration, U.S. 

Department of Labor, 200 Constitution 

Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20210. 

Comments may be submitted in writing 

to the above address, via facsimile to 

(202) 219–4745, or electronically to the 

following Internet e-mail address: 

ebsa.opr@dol.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background 

Section 609(a) of the Employee 

Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, 

as amended (ERISA), requires each 

group health plan, as defined in ERISA 

section 607(1), to provide benefits in 

accordance with the applicable 

requirements of any ‘‘qualified medical 

child support order’’ (QMCSO). A 

QMCSO is, generally, an order issued by 

a state court or other competent state 

authority that requires a group health 

plan to provide group health coverage to 

a child or children of an employee 

eligible for coverage under the plan. In 

accordance with Congressional 

directives contained in the Child 

Support Performance and Incentive Act 

of 1998 (CSPIA), EBSA and the Federal 

Office of Child Support Enforcement 

(OCSE) in the Department of Health and 

Human Services (HHS) cooperated in 

the development of regulations to create 

a National Medical Support Notice 

(NMSN or Notice). The Notice 

simplifies the issuance and processing 

of qualified medical child support 

orders issued by state child support 

enforcement agencies, provides for 

standardized communication between 

state agencies, employers, and plan 

administrators, and creates a uniform 

and streamlined process for 

enforcement of medical child support 

obligations ordered by state child 

support enforcement agencies. The 

NMSN comprises two parts: Part A was 

promulgated by HHS and pertains to 

state child support enforcement 

agencies and employers; Part B was 

promulgated by the Department and 

pertains to plan administrators pursuant 

to ERISA. This solicitation of public 

comment relates only to Part B of the 

NMSN, which was promulgated by the 

Department. In connection with 

promulgation of Part B of the NMSN, 

the Department submitted an ICR to the 

Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) for review, and OMB approved 

the information collections contained in 

Part B under OMB control number 

1210–0113. OMB’s approval of this ICR 

is scheduled to expire on October 31, 

2012. 

II. Desired Focus of Comments 

The Department is currently soliciting 

comments on the information 

collections contained in the National 

Medical Support Notice—Part B. The 

Department is particularly interested in 

comments that: 

• 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., by permitting electronic 

submissions of responses. 

III. Current Actions 

This notice requests comments on a 

revision to the ICR included in Part B 

of the NMSN. The Department is 

planning to make conforming changes to 

Part B of the NMSN reflecting changes 

HHS plans to make to Part A of the 

notice that were the subject of a 60-day 

public comment notice published by 

HHS in the Federal Register on June 28, 

2010 (75 FR 36658). HHS has informed 

the Department that it received 

comments requesting HHS and the 

Department to synchronize their OMB 

approval dates (HHS’s approval expires 

on March 31, 2011) and make the same 

revisions to data elements on Parts A 

and B of the NMSN. In response to these 

comments, the Department and HHS 

plan to make simultaneous submissions 

to OMB revising Parts A and B of the 

NMSN. A summary of the Department’s 

ICR and its current burden estimates 

follows: 

Agency: Employee Benefits Security 

Administration, Department of Labor. 

Title: National Medical Support 

Notice—Part B. 

Type of Review: Extension of a 

currently approved collection of 

information. 

OMB Number: 1210–0113. 

Affected Public: Individuals or 

households; Business or other for-profit; 

Not-for-profit institutions. 

Respondents: 432,995. 

Responses: 10,754,484. 

Estimated Total Burden Hours: 

896,207. 

Estimated Total Burden Cost 

(Operating and Maintenance): 

$5,807,421. 

Comments submitted in response to 

this notice will be summarized and/or 

included in the request for OMB 

approval of the ICR; they will also 

become a matter of public record. 

Dated: November 3, 2010. 

Joseph S. Piacentini, 

Director, Office of Policy and Research, 

Employee Benefits Security Administration. 

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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Employee Benefits Security 

Administration 

Proposed Extension of Information 

Collection Request Submitted for 

Public Comment; Prohibited 

Transaction Exemptions 81–8, 96–62, 

77–4, 98–54; Delinquent Filer Voluntary 

Compliance Program; Suspension of 

Benefits Regulation 

AGENCY: Employee Benefits Security 

Administration, Department of Labor. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Labor (the 

Department), in accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA 

95) (44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A)), provides 

the general public and Federal agencies 

with an opportunity to comment on 

proposed and continuing collections of 

information. This helps the Department 

assess the impact of its information 

collection requirements and minimize 

the public’s reporting burden. It also 

helps the public understand the 

Department’s information collection 

requirements and provide the requested 

data in the desired format. The 

Employee Benefits Security 

Administration (EBSA) is soliciting 

comments on the proposed extension of 

the information collection requests 

(ICRs) contained in the documents that 

are described below. A copy of the ICRs 

may be obtained by contacting the office 

listed in the ADDRESSES section of this 

notice. ICRs also are available at 

reginfo.gov (http://www.reginfo.gov/ 

public/do/PRAMain). 

DATES: Written comments must be 

submitted to the office shown in the 

ADDRESSES section on or before January 

10, 2011. 

ADDRESSES: G. Christopher Cosby, 

Department of Labor, Employee Benefits 

Security Administration, 200 

Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, 


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DC 20210, (202) 693–8410, FAX (202) 

693–4745 (these are not toll-free 

numbers). 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

notice requests public comment on the 

Department’s request for extension of 

the Office of Management and Budget’s 

(OMB) approval of ICRs contained in 

the rules described below. The 

Department is not proposing any 

changes to the existing ICRs at this time. 

An agency may not conduct or sponsor, 

and a person is not required to respond 

to, an information collection unless it 

displays a valid OMB control number. A 

summary of the ICRs and the current 

burden estimates follows: 

Agency: Employee Benefits Security 

Administration, Department of Labor. 

Title: Class Exemption for Investment 

of Plan Assets in Certain Types of ShortTerm Investments. 

Type of Review: Extension without 

change of a currently approved 

collection of information. 

OMB Number: 1210–0061. 

Affected Public: Business or other forprofit; Not-for-profit institutions. 

Respondents: 50,000. 

Responses: 250,000. 

Estimated Total Burden Hours: 

41,700. 

Estimated Total Burden Cost 

(Operating and Maintenance): $102,500. 

Description: Prohibited Transaction 

Class Exemption 81–8 permits the 

investment of plan assets that involve 

the purchase or other acquisition, 

holding, sale, exchange or redemption 

by or on behalf of an employee benefit 

plan in certain types of short-term 

investments. These include investments 

in banker’s acceptances, commercial 

paper, repurchase agreements, 

certificates of deposit, and bank 

securities. Absent the exemption, 

certain aspects of these transactions 

might be prohibited by section 406 and 

407(a) of the Employee Retirement 

Income Security Act (ERISA). 

In order to ensure that the exemption 

is not abused, that the rights of 

participants and beneficiaries are 

protected, and that the conditions of the 

exemption have been satisfied, the 

Department has included in the 

exemption two basic disclosure 

requirements. Both affect only the 

portion of the exemption dealing with 

repurchase agreements. The first 

requirement calls for the repurchase 

agreements between the seller and the 

plan to be in writing. The second 

requirement obliges the seller of such 

repurchase agreements to agree to 

provide financial statements to the plan 

at the time of the sale and as future 

statements are issued. The seller must 

also represent, either in the repurchase 

agreement or prior to the negotiation of 

each repurchase agreement transaction, 

that there has been no material adverse 

change in the seller’s financial 

condition since the date that the most 

recent financial statement was furnished 

which has not been disclosed to the 

plan fiduciary with whom the written 

agreement is made. 

Without the recording and disclosure 

requirements included in this ICR, 

participants and beneficiaries of a plan 

would not be protected in their 

investments, the Department would be 

unable to monitor a plan’s activities for 

compliance, and plans would be at a 

disadvantage in assessing the value of 

certain short-term investment activities. 

The ICR is scheduled to expire on April 

30, 2011. 

Agency: Employee Benefits Security 

Administration, Department of Labor. 

Title: Prohibited Transaction Class 

Exemption 96–62, Process for Expedited 

Approval of Exemption for Prohibited 

Transaction. 

Type of Review: Extension without 

change of a currently approved 

collection of information. 

OMB Number: 1210–0098. 

Affected Public: Business or other forprofit; Not-for-profit institutions. 

Respondents: 50. 

Responses: 50. 

Estimated Total Burden Hours: 62. 

Estimated Total Burden Cost 

(Operating and Maintenance): $67,375. 

Description: Section 408(a) of ERISA 

provides that the Secretary of Labor may 

grant exemptions from the prohibited 

transaction provisions of sections 406 

and 407(a) of ERISA, and directs the 

Secretary to establish an exemption 

procedure with respect to such 

provisions. On July 31, 1996, the 

Department published Prohibited 

Transaction Exemption 96–62, which, 

pursuant to the exemption procedure set 

forth in 29 CFR 2570, subpart B, permits 

a plan to seek approval on an 

accelerated basis of otherwise 

prohibited transactions. A class 

exemption will only be granted on the 

conditions that the plan demonstrate to 

the Department that the transaction is 

substantially similar to those described 

in at least two prior individual 

exemptions granted by the Department 

and that it presents little, if any, 

opportunity for abuse or risk of loss to 

a plan’s participants and beneficiaries. 

This ICR is intended to provide the 

Department with sufficient information 

to support a finding that the exemption 

meets the statutory standards of section 

408(a) of ERISA, and to provide affected 

parties with the opportunity to 

comment on the proposed transaction, 

while at the same time reducing the 

regulatory burden associated with 

processing individual exemptions for 

transactions prohibited under ERISA. 

The ICR is scheduled to expire on April 

30, 2011. 

Agency: Employee Benefits Security 

Administration, Department of Labor. 

Title: Class Exemption 77–4 for 

Certain Transactions Between 

Investment Companies and Employee 

Benefit Plans. 

Type of Review: Extension without 

change of a currently approved 

collection of information. 

OMB Number: 1210–0049. 

Affected Public: Business or other forprofit; Not-for-profit institutions. 

Respondents: 900. 

Responses: 118,000. 

Estimated Total Burden Hours: 

10,301. 

Estimated Total Burden Cost 

(Operating and Maintenance): $167,000. 

Description: Without the relief 

provided by this exemption, an openend mutual fund would be unable to 

sell shares to, or purchase shares from, 

a plan when the fiduciary with respect 

to the plan is also the investment 

advisor for the mutual fund. As a result, 

plans would be compelled to liquidate 

their existing investments involving 

such transactions and to amend their 

plan documents to establish new 

investment structures and policies. 

In order to ensure that the exemption 

is not abused and that the rights of 

participants and beneficiaries are 

protected, the Department has included 

in the exemption three basic disclosure 

requirements. The first requires at the 

time of the purchase or sale of such 

mutual fund shares that the plan’s 

independent fiduciary receive a copy of 

the current prospectus issued by the 

open-end mutual fund and a full and 

detailed written statement of the 

investment advisory fees charged to or 

paid by the plan and the open-end 

mutual fund to the investment advisor. 

The second requires that the 

independent fiduciary approve in 

writing such purchases and sales. The 

third requires that the independent 

fiduciary, once notified of changes in 

the fees, re-approve in writing the 

purchase and sale of mutual fund 

shares. The ICR is scheduled to expire 

on April 30, 2011. 

Agency: Employee Benefits Security 

Administration, Department of Labor. 

Title: PTE 98–54 Relating to Certain 

Employee Benefit Plan Foreign 

Exchange Transactions Executed 

Pursuant to Standing Instructions. 

Type of Review: Extension without 

change of a currently approved 

collection of information. 


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OMB Number: 1210–0111. 

Affected Public: Business or other forprofit; Not-for-profit institutions. 

Respondents: 35. 

Responses: 8,400. 

Estimated Total Burden Hours: 4,200. 

Estimated Total Burden Cost 

(Operating and Maintenance): $0. 

Description: PTE 98–54 permits 

certain foreign exchange transactions 

between employee benefit plans and 

certain banks, broker-dealers, and 

domestic affiliates thereof, which are 

parties in interest with respect to such 

plans, pursuant to standing instructions. 

In the absence of an exemption, foreign 

exchange transactions pursuant to 

standing instructions would be 

prohibited under circumstances where 

the bank or broker-dealer is a party in 

interest or disqualified person with 

respect to the plan under ERISA or the 

Internal Revenue Code. 

The class exemption has five basic 

information collection requirements. 

The first requires the bank or brokerdealer to maintain written policies and 

procedures for handling foreign 

exchange transactions for plans for 

which it is a party in interest, which 

policies and procedures ensure that the 

party acting for the bank or brokerdealer knows it is dealing with a plan. 

The second requires that the 

transactions are performed in 

accordance with a written authorization 

executed in advance by an independent 

fiduciary of the plan. The third requires 

that the bank or broker-dealer provides 

the authorizing fiduciary with a copy of 

its written policies and procedures for 

foreign exchange transactions involving 

income item conversions and de 

minimis purchase and sale transactions 

prior to the execution of a transaction. 

The fourth requires the bank or brokerdealer to furnish the authorizing 

fiduciary a written confirmation 

statement with respect to each covered 

transaction within five days after 

execution. The fifth requires that the 

bank or broker-dealer maintains records 

necessary for plan fiduciaries, 

participants, the Department, and the 

Internal Revenue Service, to determine 

whether the conditions of the 

exemption are being met for a period of 

six years form the date of execution of 

a transaction. 

By requiring that records pertaining to 

the exempted transaction be maintained 

for six years, this ICR ensures that the 

exemption is not abused, the rights of 

the participants and beneficiaries are 

protected, and that compliance with the 

exemption’s conditions can be 

confirmed. The exemption affects 

participants and beneficiaries of the 

plans that are involved in such 

transactions, as well as, certain banks, 

broker-dealers, and domestic affiliates 

thereof. The ICR currently is scheduled 

to expire on April 30, 2011. 

Agency: Employee Benefits Security 

Administration, Department of Labor. 

Title: Delinquent Filer Voluntary 

Compliance Program. 

Type of Review: Extension without 

change of a currently approved 

collection of information. 

OMB Number: 1210–0089. 

Affected Public: Business or other forprofit; Not-for-profit institutions. 

Respondents: 15,000. 

Responses: 15,000. 

Estimated Total Burden Hours: 750. 

Estimated Total Burden Cost 

(Operating and Maintenance): $608,250. 

Description: The Secretary of Labor 

has the authority, under section 

502(c)(2) of ERISA, to assess civil 

penalties of up to $1,000 a day against 

plan administrators who fail or refuse to 

file complete and timely annual reports 

(Form 5500 Series Annual Return/ 

Reports) as required under section 

101(b)(4) of ERISA-related regulations. 

Pursuant to 29 CFR 2560.502c–2 and 

2570.60 et seq., EBSA has maintained a 

program for the assessment of civil 

penalties for noncompliance with the 

annual reporting requirements. Under 

this program, plan administrators filing 

annual reports after the date on which 

the report was required to be filed may 

be assessed $50 per day for each day an 

annual report is filed after the date on 

which the annual report(s) was required 

to be filed, without regard to any 

extensions for filing. 

Plan administrators who fail to file an 

annual report may be assessed a penalty 

of $300 per day, up to $30,000 per year, 

until a complete annual report is filed. 

Penalties are applicable to each annual 

report required to be filed under Title I 

of ERISA. The Department may, in its 

discretion, waive all or part of a civil 

penalty assessed under section 502(c)(2) 

upon a showing by the administrator 

that there was reasonable cause for the 

failure to file a complete and timely 

annual report. 

The Department has determined that 

the possible assessment of these civil 

penalties may deter certain delinquent 

filers from voluntarily complying with 

the annual reporting requirements 

under Title I of ERISA. In an effort to 

encourage annual reporting compliance, 

therefore, the Department implemented 

the Delinquent Filer Voluntary 

Compliance (DFVC) Program (the 

Program) on April 27, 1995 (60 FR 

20873). Under the Program, 

administrators otherwise subject to the 

assessment of higher civil penalties are 

permitted to pay reduced civil penalties 

for voluntarily complying with the 

annual reporting requirements under 

Title I of ERISA. 

This ICR covers the requirement of 

providing data necessary to identify the 

plan along with the penalty payment. 

This data is the means by which each 

penalty payment is associated with the 

appropriate plan. With respect to most 

pension plans and welfare plans, the 

requirement is satisfied by sending a 

photocopy of the delinquent Form 5500 

annual report that has been filed, along 

with the penalty payment. 

Under current regulations, 

apprenticeship and training plans may 

be exempted from the reporting and 

disclosure requirements of Part 1 of 

Title I, and certain pension plans 

maintained for highly compensated 

employees, commonly called ‘‘top hat’’ 

plans, may comply with these reporting 

and disclosure requirements by using an 

alternate method by filing a one-time 

identifying statement with the 

Department. The DFVC Program 

provides that apprenticeship and 

training plans and top hat plans may, in 

lieu of filing any past due annual 

reports and paying otherwise applicable 

civil penalties, complete and file 

specific portions of a Form 5500, file the 

identifying statements that were 

required to be filed, and pay a one-time 

penalty. The ICR currently is scheduled 

to expire on May 31, 2011. 

Agency: Employee Benefits Security 

Administration, Department of Labor. 

Title: Suspension of Pension Benefits 

Regulation Pursuant to 29 CFR 

2530.203–3. 

Type of Review: Extension without 

change of a currently approved 

collection of information. 

OMB Number: 1210–0048. 

Affected Public: Business or other forprofit; Not-for-profit institutions. 

Respondents: 47,614. 

Responses: 233,181. 

Estimated Total Burden Hours: 

162,274. 

Estimated Total Burden Cost 

(Operating and Maintenance): $107,263. 

Description: Section 203(a)(3)(B) of 

ERISA governs the circumstances under 

which pension plans may suspend 

pension benefit payments to retirees 

that return to work or to participants 

that continue to work beyond normal 

retirement age. Furthermore, section 

203(a)(3)(B) of ERISA authorizes the 

Secretary to prescribe regulations 

necessary to carry out the provisions of 

this section. 

In this regard, the Department issued 

a regulation which describes the 

circumstances and conditions under 

which plans may suspend the pension 

benefits of retirees that return to work, 


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or of participants that continue to work 

beyond normal retirement age (29 CFR 

2530.203–3). In order for a plan to 

suspend benefits pursuant to the 

regulation, it must notify affected 

retirees or participants (by first class 

mail or personal delivery) during the 

first calendar month or payroll period in 

which the plan withholds payment, that 

benefits are suspended. This notice 

must include the specific reasons for 

such suspension, a general description 

of the plan provisions authorizing the 

suspension, a copy of the relevant plan 

provisions, and a statement indicating 

where the applicable regulations may be 

found (i.e., 29 CFR 2530.203–3). In 

addition, the suspension notification 

must inform the retiree or participant of 

the plan’s procedure for affording a 

review of the suspension of benefits. 

The ICR currently is scheduled to expire 

on May 31, 2011. 

III. Focus of Comments 

The Department is particularly 

interested in comments that: 

• Evaluate whether the collections of 

information are 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 collections 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., by permitting electronic 

submissions of responses. 

Comments submitted in response to 

this notice will be summarized and/or 

included in the ICRs for OMB approval 

of the extension of the information 

collection; they will also become a 

matter of public record. 

Dated: November 3, 2010. 

Joseph S. Piacentini, 

Director, Office of Policy and Research, 

Employee Benefits Security Administration. 

[FR Doc. 2010–28306 Filed 11–9–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4510–29–P 

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Employment and Training 

Administration 

Notice of a Change in Status of an 

Extended Benefit (EB) Period for 

Alaska and Wisconsin 

AGENCY: Employment and Training 

Administration, Labor. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces a 

change in benefit period eligibility 

under the Extended Benefits program 

for Alaska and Wisconsin. 

The following changes have occurred 

since the publication of the last notice 

regarding the States’ EB status: 

• The Total Unemployment Rate 

(TUR) data for August 2010, released on 

September 21, 2010, by the Bureau of 

Labor Statistics, brought the threemonth average seasonally adjusted 

TURs in Alaska and Wisconsin below 

the 8.0% threshold to remain ‘‘on’’ for a 

High Unemployment Period (HUP) in 

the Extended Benefits program. As a 

result, Alaska and Wisconsin concluded 

their HUP on October 16 and eligibility 

for claimants has been reduced from a 

maximum potential entitlement of 20 

weeks to a maximum potential 

entitlement of 13 weeks in the Extended 

Benefits program. 

The trigger notice covering state 

eligibility for the Extended Benefit 

program can be found at: http://ows.

doleta.gov/unemploy/claims_arch.asp. 

A new trigger notice is posted at this 

location each week. 

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 an EB 

period, 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 4th day of 

November 2010. 

Jane Oates, 

Assistant Secretary, Employment and 

Training Administration. 

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BILLING CODE 4510–FW–P 

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Employment and Training 

Administration 

Announcement Regarding the Virgin 

Islands Triggering ‘‘on’’ to Tier Three of 

Emergency Unemployment 

Compensation 2008 (EUC08) 

AGENCY: Employment and Training 

Administration, Labor. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: Announcement regarding the 

Virgin Islands triggering ‘‘on’’ to Tier 

Three of Emergency Unemployment 

Compensation 2008 (EUC08). 

Public Law 111–205 extended 

provisions in public law 111–92 which 

amended prior laws to create a Third 

and Fourth Tier 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 EUC08 benefits within Tiers Three 

and Four and provides the beginning 

and ending dates of payable periods for 

each qualifying state. The trigger notice 

covering state eligibility for the EUC08 

program can be found at: http://ows.

doleta.gov/unemploy/claims_arch.asp. 

A new trigger notice is posted at this 

location each week that the program is 

in effect. 

Based on data published October 8, 

2010 by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 

the following trigger change has 

occurred for the Virgin Islands’ EUC08 

program: 

• The seasonally-adjusted total 

unemployment rate for the 3-month 

period ending September 2010 for the 

Virgin Islands rose to 6.2 percent, 

causing the Virgin Islands to begin a 

payable period in the third tier of EUC 

effective October 24, 2010. Eligibility for 

claimants in the Virgin Islands will be 

increased from a maximum potential 

entitlement of 34 weeks to a maximum 

potential entitlement of 47 weeks in the 

EUC program. 


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