To notify State Workforce Agencies (SWA) of a new access requirement impacting recipient organization users of Treasury’s ASAP system.

This Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) is to inform states regarding the availability of additional funding to support states’ participation and correspondence with the U.S. Department of Labor (Department), Employment and Training Administration’s (ETA’s) outreach efforts regarding ongoing CARES Act program activity, commonly referred to as ETA’s “well-defined ask”.  

To provide guidance for the Department of Labor’s (Department) Fiscal Year (FY)2023 Community Project Funding/Congressionally Directed Spending recipients specified in Appendix I.

To notify states that participated in the Tiger Team consultative assessment under UIPL No. 02-22 or that expressed interest to participate in the Tiger Teams consultative assessment by the required March 31, 2023, deadline, of the availability of additional grant funds to further support implementation of negotiated recommendations and to announce a modification to the grant application and award process in an effort to streamline the states’ receipt of the funds.

To provide SCSEP state, territorial, and national grantees with the PY 2023 SCSEP allotments and the application instructions for PY 2023 grant submissions.  This Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) will also provide guidance regarding Minority Report submissions in the Program Narrative for this year.  

To convey National Farmworker Jobs Program (NFJP) grant allotments for Program Year (PY) 2023 and provide instructions for submission of required documents for grant application and performance negotiations for NFJP Career Services and Training grants and Housing grants. Additionally, this guidance includes application instructions for grantees that wish to apply for additional PY 2023 NFJP Youth Grant Funding.

This guidance informs the workforce system of clarifications made to the instructions for the Training Expenditures line item on some of the Employment and Training Administration’s (ETA) financial reports (ETA-9130) and shares information regarding the transition of ETA’s quarterly financial reporting to the U.S. Health and Human Services Payment Management System (PMS).

To provide clarification of program instructions, Attachment I and revised PDF and Excel versions of Attachment II to TEGL 23-19, Change 1, Guidance for Validating Required Performance Data Submitted by Grant Recipients of U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) Workforce Programs, issued on October 25, 2022.

To inform State Workforce Agencies (SWAs) of the release of a new toolkit published on WorkforceGPS under the UI Community of Practice (COP). This toolkit, created as part of American Rescue Plan Act UI Modernization, provides SWAs with actionable solutions for common and emerging issues related to equitable access to unemployment compensation (UC) programs.

This guidance supersedes Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) 11-19, published February 6, 2020, and developed jointly by the U.S. Departments of Labor and Education (the Departments). Through this updated guidance, the Departments:  

• Revise their approach to using the statistical adjustment model for the purpose of assessing state performance; 
• Clarify the implementation of potential financial sanctions for consecutive performance failures occurring across multiple State Plan periods; and 
• Clarify that states can be sanctioned up to 10 percent of the Governor’s Reserve Allotment if there is consecutive performance failure and a failure to report for the same program year.

This guidance also continues to delineate the process for negotiating levels of performance, as required by section 116(b)(3)(A)(iv) of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) and explains the two instances in which a state may be sanctioned, namely for performance failure or for failure to report (section 116(f) of WIOA).