This Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) informs State Workforce Agencies (SWA), partnering agencies, employers, and other stakeholders of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approval of the extension, with revisions, of the Work Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC) information collection under OMB Control number 1205-0371. Additionally, this TEGL provides clarification on the use of ETA Form 9198, Employer Representative Declaration Form, for employers to authorize a third-party representative to act on their behalf to manage WOTC certification requests.

To transmit the subject computation for State Workforce Agency usage in computing minimum weekly DUA amounts for all major disasters declared from July 1 – September 30, 2023, (fourth quarter of Fiscal Year (FY) 2023).

This guidance clarifies and compares the variety of training and other services available to states and local workforce areas under the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) with the goal of improving training outcomes across all populations served, particularly those with barriers to employment and underserved populations. The guidance also addresses operational questions related to implementing certain types of training.

To encourage state, local, and community workforce development grantees to partner with agencies that administer SNAP to provide access to work and job training for individuals whose SNAP benefits are time-limited.

To provide program guidance for the development, management, and delivery of workforce and labor market information (WLMI) funded through the Workforce and Labor Market Information Grants to States (WIGS).

To provide information to outlying areas (American Samoa, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, Republic of Palau, and U.S. Virgin Islands) on submitting a single application for WIOA title I Adult, Dislocated Worker, and Youth Activities program allotments for PY 2023.

To notify states of the availability of funding for UI modernization, with a focus on improving the flexibility of IT systems through modular and evidence-driven approaches. This funding includes up to $600 million for states to support UI IT modernization activities and up to $53 million for states to participate in ARPA program activities offered by the U.S. Department of Labor (Department) related to IT modernization, under a single grant award.

To notify State Workforce Agencies (SWA) of a new access requirement impacting recipient organization users of Treasury’s ASAP system.

To temporarily re-open the application period for states, which did not submit prior applications, to apply for UI equity grants described in UIPL No. 23-21 for activities eliminating administrative barriers to benefit application, reducing state workload backlogs, improving the timeliness of unemployment compensation (UC) payments to eligible individuals, and ensuring equity in fraud prevention, detection, and recovery activities. This UIPL also announces the opportunity for all states to receive amounts in addition to their original allocation described in Attachment I to UIPL No. 23-21.

This Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) is to inform states regarding the availability of additional funding to support states’ participation and correspondence with the U.S. Department of Labor (Department), Employment and Training Administration’s (ETA’s) outreach efforts regarding ongoing CARES Act program activity, commonly referred to as ETA’s “well-defined ask”.