This Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) provides current SCSEP state, territorial, and national grantees with the application instructions, allocations, and the process and procedures for the PY 2018 grant submission.

To announce the availability of funding for States to send state UI appellate staff to the 2018 UI Appellate Professionals Training Conference scheduled to be held June 17-21, 2018, in Annapolis, Maryland.

This Training and Employment Guidance (TEGL) 29-16, Change 1 provides the National Farmworker Jobs Program (NFJP) grantees with revised program year (PY) 2017 allocations.

This guidance provides states and outlying areas with revised allotment levels for WIOA Title I Adult, Dislocated Worker, and Youth Activities programs; and the Wagner-Peyser Act ES program for PY 2017. Change 1 to Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) No. 27-16 indicated a 0.6791 percent reduction to the WIOA Adult and Dislocated Worker levels for PY 2017. Change 2 restores funding to the originally allotted levels. Change 2 also restores the 0.5 percent of PY 2017 appropriated funding set aside for program integrity purposes from the WIOA Title I Adult, Dislocated Worker, and Youth programs, as well as the Wagner-Peyser Act ES program.

To provide information to states and outlying areas on WIOA Title I Adult, Dislocated Worker and Youth Activities program allotments for PY 2018; final allotments for PY 2018 for the Wagner-Peyser 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 2018.

To inform current and prospective Employment and Training Administration (ETA) grant recipients of important information related to SAM. Current grant recipients should review their SAM registration information and ensure that it remains active. Prospective grant recipients are encouraged to complete a new SAM registration well in advance of their intent to apply for a federal grant.

To provide guidance for the funding and management of the FY 2018 annual grant allocations in order to perform FLC program activities.

To announce the release and availability of the Comparison of State Unemployment Insurance Laws 2018.

To advise states that disadvantaged Youth and Adult data for use in the WIOA Youth and Adult within-state allocation formulas is available on the ETA website and that states should use this data in their PY 2018 and future within-state allocation formulas.

To provide information to State Workforce Agencies (SWAs) about the application of sequestration in Fiscal Year (FY) 2018, how the U.S. 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.