This Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) announces the availability of additional funding to cover ongoing administrative costs related to reporting, data retention, audit-related and oversight activities, efforts to detect, establish and recover overpayments, and financial reconciliation efforts associated with the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA), Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation (PEUC), and Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation (FPUC) programs and the provisions of Section 2105 of the CARES Act for Temporary Full Federal Funding of the First week of Compensable Regular Unemployment for States with No Waiting Week (Section 2105).

To notify states that the Department of Labor’s (Department) is making available technical resources and services through the National Association of State Workforce Agencies (NASWA) to support implementation of ARPA-funded projects. 

Consistent with Joint WIOA Final Rule requirements, the U.S. Departments of Labor and Education (the Departments) have determined it is appropriate and reasonable in PY 2023 for the:

•    U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) to assess performance for four performance indicators under the WIOA title I core programs and for three performance indicators under the Employment Service (referred to as “WIOA title III”) core program;
•    U.S. Department of Education (ED) to assess performance for four performance indicators under the Vocational Rehabilitation (referred to as “WIOA title IV”) core program; and
•    Departments to delay assessing performance for the purpose of imposing sanctions for the WIOA title II core program and for the remaining performance indicators in the WIOA titles I, III, and IV core programs to provide for the orderly transition from the requirements of the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (WIA) to those of WIOA, as permitted under section 503(a) of WIOA.

The Departments’ determinations, as will be described more fully herein, are consistent with the phased-in approach to performance assessments described in Training and Employment Guidance Letter No. 11-19, Change 1 issued on May 10, 2023.  

This Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) transmits Veterans Program Letter (VPL) 05-24, Jobs for Veterans State Grants Staff Roles and Responsibilities, and Coordination with Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act Services to Veterans, jointly developed by the Employment and Training Administration (ETA) and Veterans’ Employment and Training Service (VETS). VPL 05-24 clarifies JVSG statutory duties, roles, and responsibilities such staff are expected to perform and discusses relationship between JVSG and other programs within the workforce system. Additionally, the guidance is designed to update state workforce professionals about AJC staff roles with JVSG. It emphasizes statutory duties and describes staffing flexibilities available to states to meet their JVSG responsibilities while maximizing the integration of services and collaboration of partners in the AJCs.

To inform states that connect to the ICON system for real-time services that direct connection to the ICON Cloud Hub is now available and recommended. States are encouraged to transition to one of two potential direct connection options which are 1) Connecting via Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)/Web Services and 2) Connecting via packaged code (ICONnect).

To provide guidance to recipients of the Department of Labor’s (Department) Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 Community Project Funding/Congressionally Directed Spending, specified in Appendix I: Eligible Applicants.

To advise State Workforce Agencies, or agencies designated by Governors as “Cooperating State Agencies” (CSAs) (also jointly referred to as “states”) of the state distribution amounts of FY 2024 TAA Program TaOA funds.

The purpose of this Training and Employment Notice (TEN) is to provide the logistic details for the Fall 2024 BAM Paid Claims Peer Review to be conducted September 9-13, 2024, in Philadelphia, PA.

To initiate the FY 2025 SQSP process and define additional requirements relevant to the FY.

To provide State Workforce Agencies (SWAs) with advance notice of the upcoming permanent transition of the DV and TPS applications from UIDBMS to UIRS; instructions to submit DV and TPS data to UIRS; and the decommissioning of the DV and TPS applications in UIDBMS effective August 15, 2024.

To announce the New Access to DNP Data Sources through the IDH Webinar, which is scheduled to occur on July 23, 2024, at 2:00 p.m. (Eastern Time).

To inform states of changes made by the Department of Defense (DOD) to the DD Form 214 and 215 (DD-214 and DD-215) series and to provide guidance necessary to properly administer the Unemployment Compensation for Ex-servicemembers (UCX) program.

To announce the release of a new UI Fraud Risk Management page on WorkforceGPS under the UI Community of Practice (CoP) and to notify states that the National Association of State Workforce Agencies’ (NASWA) UI Integrity Center is a key resource available to support states’ UI fraud risk management efforts.  

To provide information to states about FY 2024 UI State Administration base resource allocations, general guidelines for resource planning, above-base funding, and SBRs.

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, 2024 (fourth quarter of Fiscal Year (FY) 2024).
 

To provide WIOA Section 166 INA Program grantees with Comprehensive Services Program (CSP) and Supplemental Youth Services Program (SYSP) funding allotments for PY 2024.
 

To provide procedures to be used by all Employment and Training Administration (ETA) federal assistance recipients and subrecipients for reporting suspected fraud, program abuse, or criminal conduct involving recipients or other entities receiving Federal awards directly from ETA and/or involving subrecipients receiving Federal funds indirectly from ETA.

This guidance updates Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) 10-16, Change 2, published September 15, 2022, and developed jointly by the U.S. Departments of Labor (DOL) and Education (ED) (the Departments). Within ED, the Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education (OCTAE) will update Program Memorandum (PM) 17-2 and the Rehabilitation Services Administration (RSA) will update Technical Assistance Circular (TAC) 17-01 to be consistent with the changes reflected herein. 

To announce the renewal of the Unemployment Insurance (UI) Data Validation (DV) Handbook, Benefits and Tax (Employment and Training (ET) Handbook No. 361) and the Data Validation Operations Guide (ET Handbook No. 411).

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).