To update Training and Employment Notice (TEN) 08-22, which promotes a framework for all workforce stakeholders, including infrastructure project leads, to engage the public workforce system in implementing the Investing in America (IIA) funding—which includes the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA), Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL),Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors (CHIPS) and Science Act, and the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA)—with strong workforce commitments and proven strategies that produce high-quality education, training, and employment opportunities for all workers. This update includes several more examples of grant programs which present opportunities for coordination between the public workforce system and infrastructure investments.
 

The purpose of this Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) is to publish final allocations for SCSEP National grantees for PY 2024 and provide the procedures for submitting Optional Special Requests and revised policies.

To ensure states are aware of the Schedule of Remuneration for the UCX program that reflects the military pay increase effective January 1, 2025.

To transmit the subject computation for State Workforce Agency usage in computing minimum weekly DUA amounts for all major disasters declared from January 1 – March 31, 2025 (second quarter of Fiscal Year (FY) 2025).

To ensure State Workforce Agencies (SWAs) are aware of the Federal military retired pay annual COLA provided by the Department of Defense.

To announce a report providing an updated cost-benefit analysis of state BPC activities based on FY 2019 data.

To inform the state and local workforce development system of the policies and priorities that govern the award and use of National Dislocated Worker Grant (DWG) funds, pursuant to the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA), Title I, Section 170.

To announce the release of the new POA Exchange by the National Association of State Workforce Agencies’ (NASWA) SIDES.

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 (CY) 2025, and to provide the U.S. Office of Personnel Management’s (OPM) COLA information.

To announce the availability of up to $925,200 for National Farmworker Jobs Program (NFJP) Youth Grants.