To announce the renewal of the Unemployment Insurance (UI) Benefit Accuracy Measurement (BAM) information collection with updated burden levels.

To provide states, territories, and outlying areas with guidance for submission of modification of the four-year Senior Community Service Employment Program (SCSEP) Stand-Alone State Plans, including the submission process and deadline for submission. Note that, while this guidance generally aligns with the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) guidance, this TEGL pertains only to states that are submitting a SCSEP Stand-Alone State Plan modification for Program Years (PYs) 2026–2027. States that are including SCSEP as part of a modification of the Combined State Plan for 2026–2027 must refer to Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) No. 07-25 that the Employment and Training Administration (ETA) issued on January 26, 2026, for instructions on submission of Combined State Plans modifications.

This Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) provides Senior Community Service Employment Program (SCSEP) state, territorial, and national grantees with Program Year (PY) 2026 SCSEP allotments and the application instructions for PY 2026 grant submissions.

To provide instructions to National Farmworker Jobs Program (NFJP) Career Services and Training grantees and Housing Services grantees for the submission of required documents for Program Year (PY) 2026 allotments and performance negotiations.  Additionally, Attachment V of this guidance includes application instructions for grantees that wish to apply for additional PY 2026 NFJP Youth Services Grants.  

This guidance: 1) clarifies the allowable uses of formula and competitive grant funds authorized by the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA), including the Adult Education and Family Literacy Act (AEFLA), and the Strengthening Career and Technical Education for the 21st Century Act (Perkins V) for outreach activities; 2) provides examples of how grantees can use grant funds to effectively conduct outreach; and 3) directs the workforce system to expand its reach to more workers who can benefit from employment and training services and to better meet the needs of businesses. 
 

The purpose of this Training and Employment Notice (TEN) is to announce that the U.S. Department of Labor’s (Department) Employment and Training Administration (ETA) is using its discretion to temporarily not enforce certain requirements within the Wagner-Peyser Act Employment Service (ES) regulations.

This Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) announces the availability of funding to pay for the ongoing costs of administering the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA), Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation (PEUC), Mixed Earners Unemployment Compensation (MEUC), and Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation (FPUC) programs. While these temporary programs have expired, State Workforce Agencies (SWAs) continue to perform work to combat fraud and activities such as reconciling accounts and reports, establishing and recovering overpayments, retaining all applicable data, and processing any workload backlogs.

To communicate allotment amounts for Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 foreign labor certification grants and explain updated application requirements to State Workforce Agencies (SWA). The rest of Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) No. 15-24 remains the same.

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

To provide information to states and outlying areas on Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) Title I Adult, Dislocated Worker, and Youth Activities program allotments for Program Year (PY) 2026; PY 2026 allotments for the Wagner-Peyser Act Employment Service (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 2026.

To convey the Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 funding allotments for the Work Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC) and application requirements for State Workforce Agencies(SWAs) for fiscal year 2026.

The Employment and Training Administration (ETA), U.S. Department of Labor (DOL, or the Department, or we), announces the availability of approximately $85 million in formula funding to states and territories for a fourth round of State Apprenticeship Expansion Formula (herein referred to as “SAEF4”) grants.
 

This Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) and its attachments contain information about the formula award, application requirements and procedures, program goals and objectives; expected performance outcomes; eligibility; funding restrictions, policies, and limitations; period of performance (POP); and post-award policies related to this grant program.

To disseminate the U.S. Department of Education (ED), Office of Career Technical and Adult Education’s (OCTAE’s) Program Memorandum 26-3 to the public workforce system. Memorandum 26-3 outlines practical strategies for states to support a unified talent development system that seamlessly connects secondary education, postsecondary education, workforce training, and employment, by aligning activities under the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) and the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006, reauthorized as the Strengthening Career and Technical Education for the 21st Century Act (Perkins V).

To advise states that the U.S. Department of Labor (Department) is enhancing its identity (ID) verification services offering via the U.S. General Services Administration’s(GSA) Login.gov and to announce a new funding opportunity to support state-incurred expenses related to participation in these ID verification services.

To provide State Workforce Agencies (SWAs) with an updated notice of the upcoming permanent transition of the Unemployment Insurance Required Reports (UIR) and Benefit Accuracy Measurement (BAM) applications from Unemployment Insurance Database Management System (UIDBMS) to Unemployment Insurance Reporting System (UIRS); to provide instructions to SWAs on how to submit data to UIRS; and to advise SWAs that starting January 20, 2026, all states must transmit their UIR data only through UIRS and that starting February 9, 2026, all states must transmit their BAM data only through UIRS.

To rescind Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) 10-23, Change 2.
 

To transmit the subject computation for State Workforce Agency usage in computing minimum weekly Disaster Unemployment Assistance (DUA) amounts for all major disasters declared from April 1 – June 30, 2026 (third quarter of Fiscal Year (FY) 2026).

To provide reimbursement instructions to states attending the 2026 National UI Convening occurring March 10 – 11, 2026, at the Frances Perkins Building in Washington, D.C.

To issue the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL or Department) Artificial Intelligence (AI) Literacy Framework as a resource for program design and encourage expanded AI literacy training across the public workforce and education systems.

The purpose of this Training and Employment Notice (TEN) is to announce the cancellation of several Training and Employment Guidance Letters (TEGLs) and TENs.