To assist State Workforce Agencies (SWAs) or agencies designated by Governors as "Cooperating State Agencies" (CSAs) (also jointly referred to as "States," "Recipients," "Grantees," "Applicant," or "You") in gaining access to FY 2019 TAA Program TaOA funds by completing and submitting Standard Form (SF) 424, Application for Federal Assistance, through www.grants.gov.

To bring attention to the revised Federal poverty guidelines for administrators of the SCSEP.

To announce the rate of interest that the U.S. Department of the Treasury (Treasury) will charge on Title XII advances during CY 2019.

To convey the Work Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC) Fiscal Year (FY) 2019 grant funding allotments and application requirements for the State Workforce Development Agencies, also known as State Workforce Agencies (SWA).

This Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) identifies populations eligible to receive services provided by Disabled Veterans' Outreach Program (DVOP) specialists using a case management approach in addition to the populations listed in TEGL 19-13 (issued April 10, 2014).

To announce the release and availability of the Significant Provisions of State Unemployment Insurance Laws, effective January 2019.

To notify the workforce system of recent State Occupational Licensing Review and Reform grant awards and related resources, including the National Conference of State Legislatures' (NCSL) licensing resources and database available at http://www.ncsl.org/stateslicense.

To provide guidance to the public workforce system in the promotion of the HIRE Vets Medallion Program to its local employer partners.

Notification of the availability of a new state UI program forecasting model (UNIS-X) and the cessation of support for the existing Benefit Financing Forecasting Model (BFM).

To provide guidelines for the FY 2019 UI RESEA grants and to invite State Workforce Agencies to submit applications for funding.

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

To announce the release and availability of a report titled, Providing Public Workforce Services to Job Seekers: 30-month Impact Findings on the WIA Adult and Dislocated Worker Programs.

To ensure states are aware of the Schedule of Remuneration for the UCX program that reflects the military pay increase effective January 1, 2019.

To transmit the subject computation for State Workforce Agency usage in computing minimum weekly DUA amounts for all major disasters declared during the second quarter of Fiscal Year (FY) 2019.

This guidance communicates the requirements and the process for states to request a waiver of WIOA Title I or the Wagner-Peyser Act, and to provide information regarding available resources for developing waiver requests.

This guidance provides information to States and grantees of the U.S. Departments of Labor (DOL) and Education (ED) (collectively "the Departments") on the performance accountability system requirements set forth in section 116 of WIOA. Specifically, this guidance provides information about the guidelines States must use in developing procedures for ensuring the data submitted are valid and reliable.

The Employment and Training Administration (ETA) is providing a renewed form ETA 9178 for State Workforce Agencies and other applicable grant recipients to document the quarterly progress toward completing their supplemental grant activities. This form is renewed for grantee quarterly reporting through August 31, 2021.

To ensure that states are aware that: 1) the social security survivors and old age retirement annuities and the Federal civilian pensions annual cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) will increase for calendar year 2019 and 2) COLA information is located on the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) website.

To provide sequestration rules for Fiscal Year (FY) 2019 to State Workforce Agencies (SWAs) that apply to mandatory Unemployment Insurance (UI) programs and information on how the U.S. Department of Labor (Department) will apply those rules. These rules include the application of sequestration on delayed benefit payments for prior FYs and the resulting administrative costs.

To remind state workforce agencies (SWAs) that Federal law requires all states to participate in the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Treasury Offset Program (TOP) to recover delinquent unemployment compensation (UC) debts for benefit overpayments due to fraud, benefit overpayments due to a claimant’s failure to report earnings, and delinquent UC taxes.