To remind the workforce community that ETA Advisories issued using a signature block with "/s/" constitute official guidance.

To provide SCSEP state, territorial, and national grantees with the PY 2022 SCSEP allotments and the application instructions for PY 2022 grant submissions. This TEGL will also provide guidance regarding Minority Report submissions in the Program Narrative for this year.

To provide a checklist of all currently active ETA advisories as well as a checklist of all ETA advisories rescinded/cancelled since the previously issued checklists.

To ensure State Workforce Agencies (SWA) are aware that employers seeking to hire foreign workers for temporary employment under a supplemental H-2B visa cap for work certified to commence in the second half of FY 2022 must contact an American Job Center (AJC) for assistance in recruiting U.S. workers for their job opportunities. This information is similar to that shared in January 2022 regarding the first half of FY 2022.

To convey grant allotments for Program Year (PY) 2022 and provide information related to submission instructions for required funding documents and performance targets.

To provide states with the revised and final FY 2022 UI State Administration base resource planning targets, general guidelines for resource planning, and an explanation of how the U.S. Department of Labor (Department) allocates base resources among the states.

To provide information to states and outlying areas on WIOA Title I Adult, Dislocated Worker and Youth Activities program allotments for PY 2022; final PY 2022 allotments for the Wagner-Peyser Act ES Program, as required by section 6(b)(5) of the Wagner-Peyser Act, as amended; and the allotments of Workforce Information Grants to states for PY 2022.

To provide an update on the IDH Participation Agreement (Version 5.0) and the available services in the IDH. The IDH is an important integrity tool to aid in detecting and preventing UI fraud; all states are strongly encouraged to enter into the updated IDH Participation Agreement in order to take advantage of the IDH services.

This Change 2 to Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) No. 3-21 conveys the remaining balance for Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 WOTC funding allotments and explains application requirements for State Workforce Agencies (SWAs) based on appropriated funding. Additionally, this Change 2 TEGL announces 18 states selected to receive additional FY 2022 backlog award funding and provides instructions to those states on how to proceed. The rest of TEGL No. 3-21 remains the same.

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 2022, and to provide the U.S. Office of Personnel Management’s (OPM) COLA information.