To announce the 2017 UI SIDES Training Seminar, being held April 18-20, 2017, in Kansas City, Missouri.

To announce the release and availability of the Significant Provisions of State Unemployment Insurance Laws Effective January 2017.

To announce the rate of interest that the U.S. Department of the Treasury (Treasury) will charge on Title XII advances during CY 2017.

To provide guidance for eligibility of program participants for the National Farmworker Jobs Program (NFJP) authorized under Title I Section 167 Migrant and Seasonal Farmworker (MSFW) Programs of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA). This guidance rescinds and replaces Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) NO. 25-04 Participant Eligibility Guidance and TEGL NO. 25-04 Change 1.

To ensure 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 2017, and 2) COLA information may be found on the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Web site.

To provide information to State Workforce Agencies (SWAs) about the application of sequestration in Fiscal Year (FY) 2017, how the Department of Labor (Department) will apply sequestration to mandatory Unemployment Insurance (UI) programs and on delayed benefit payments from prior fiscal years, and the resulting administrative costs.

This Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) provides guidance on the operating costs of the one-stop delivery system, which are comprised of infrastructure costs and additional costs (i.e., career services, shared operating costs, and shared services) in accordance with the requirements set forth in the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) and its implementing regulations.

The Employment and Training Administration (ETA) announces the release and availability of the final report titled Evaluation of the GATE II Grants: Is Self-Employment Training Effective for Rural and Older Dislocated Workers?

This Change 2 replaces and makes corrections to the previously issued Training and Employment Notice (TEN) 28-16 to inform the workforce system with examples, best practices, partnership models, and information on how to align resources available under the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) to increase services to English Language Learners (ELL) with substantial cultural and language barriers to employment. It further provides information to the workforce system, including partner programs and entities that are jointly responsible for workforce and economic development, educational, and other human resource programs, about how to align their efforts to provide basic career services, individualized career services, and training services.

The Employment and Training Administration (ETA) announces the release and availability of two papers from a study of states' use of Workforce Data Quality Initiative (WDQI) Databases to inform Consumer Report Card Systems and manage Eligible Training Provider Lists (ETPL).