To provide State Workforce Agencies (SWAs) guidelines and key dates for the completion of the 2025 UI BAM paid and denied claims sample cases. 

To announce revisions to Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) 23-19, Change 1, and Change 2 Guidance for Validating Required Performance Data Submitted by Grant Recipients of U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) Workforce Programs. This guidance provides information to grant recipients of the U.S. Department of Labor workforce programs, including states, and provides guidelines for grant recipients to use in developing procedures for ensuring the data submitted for performance reporting are valid and reliable. With this issuance, DOL (the Department) updates the guidance to align it with changes made by the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) Effectiveness in Serving Employers Performance Indicator final rule (89 FR 13814 (Feb. 23, 2024)) (Final Rule), which took effect March 25, 2024. This Final Rule defined the Effectiveness in Serving Employers primary indicator of performance, as required by WIOA section 116(b)(2), as Retention with the Same Employer; it also clarifies what can be counted as an Educational Functional Level gain type for the Measurable Skill Gains indicator outlined in TEGL 10-16, Change 3 Performance Accountability Guidance for Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) Core Programs issued June 11, 2024. This guidance also revises source documentation in Attachment II to be consistent with Departmental guidance including TEGL 26-16, Change 1 Guidance on the use of Supplemental Wage Information to implement the Performance Accountability Requirements under the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) issued July 10, 2025.

To maximize innovation in the public workforce system and better serve job seekers and employers by providing state and local workforce development systems waiver opportunities, to promote flexibility within the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) formula funded programs, and to achieve the Administration’s vision for America’s workforce under Executive Order 14278 on Preparing Americans for High-Paying Skilled Trade Jobs of the Future.

To provide ETA grant award recipients and stakeholders with information about how a temporary suspension of Federal Government services impacts the execution of ETA-funded programs and services.

This Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) provides updated Program Year (PY) 2025 Planning Instructions and Allotments for the Senior Community Service Employment Program (SCSEP) National Grantees. This Change 1 and the materials and forms it discusses are in addition to the guidance outlined in TEGL No. 16-24, Program Year 2025 Planning Instructions and Allotments for the Senior Opportunity Service Employment Program State and Territorial Grantees.

To provide information to states about Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 Unemployment Insurance (UI) State Administration base resource allocations, general guidelines for resource planning, above-base funding, and Supplemental Budget Requests (SBRs).

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 transmit the subject computation for State Workforce Agency usage in computing minimum weekly Disaster Unemployment Assistance (DUA) amounts for all major disasters declared from October 1 – December 31, 2025 (first quarter of Fiscal Year (FY) 2026).

To encourage the state and local workforce development systems to use Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) funding to help youth and adults develop artificial intelligence (AI) skills.

To provide states with information about preliminary FY 2026 UI State Administration base resource planning targets, with general guidelines for resource planning, and an explanation of how the U.S. Department of Labor (Department) allocates base resources among the states.