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This letter provides guidance on siblings using FMLA leave, as in loco parentis, and the need to provide parental care for a son or daughter 18 years or older.

Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) No. 01-25, Change 1 updates TEGL No. 01-25 to provide instructions for states to request Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) Program funds. Except for the revisions described in this Change 1, all processes, requirements, and criteria outlined in TEGL No. 01-25 remain unchanged and apply to FY 2026 funding. This guidance does not rescind or cancel TEGL No. 01-25.

Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) No. 14-25 provides states, territories, and outlying areas with guidance for submission of modification of the four-year Senior Community Service Employment Program (SCSEP) Stand-Alone State Plans, including the submission process and deadline for submission. Note that, while this guidance generally aligns with the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act guidance, this TEGL pertains only to states that are submitting a SCSEP Stand-Alone State Plan modification for Program Years 2026–2027. States that are including SCSEP as part of a modification of the Combined State Plan for 2026–2027 must refer to TEGL No. 07-25 that the Employment and Training Administration issued on January 26, 2026, for instructions on submission of Combined State Plans modifications.

Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) No. 13-25 provides Senior Community Service Employment Program (SCSEP) state, territorial, and national grantees with Program Year (PY) 2026 SCSEP allotments and the application instructions for PY 2026 grant submissions.

Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) No. 12-25 provides instructions to National Farmworker Jobs Program (NFJP) Career Services and Training grantees and Housing Services grantees for the submission of required documents for Program Year (PY) 2026 allotments and performance negotiations.  Additionally, Attachment V of this guidance includes application instructions for grantees that wish to apply for additional PY 2026 NFJP Youth Services Grants.

Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) No. 11-25: 1) clarifies the allowable uses of formula and competitive grant funds authorized by the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA), including the Adult Education and Family Literacy Act (AEFLA), and the Strengthening Career and Technical Education for the 21st Century Act (Perkins V) for outreach activities; 2) provides examples of how grantees can use grant funds to effectively conduct outreach; and 3) directs the workforce system to expand its reach to more workers who can benefit from employment and training services and to better meet the needs of businesses.

Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) No. 11-26 announces the availability of funding to pay for the ongoing costs of administering the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA), Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation (PEUC), Mixed Earners Unemployment Compensation (MEUC), and Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation (FPUC)programs. While these temporary programs have expired, State Workforce Agencies (SWAs) continue to perform work to combat fraud and activities such as reconciling accounts and reports, establishing and recovering overpayments, retaining all applicable data, and processing any workload backlogs.

Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) No. 15-24, Change 1 communicates allotment amounts for Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 foreign labor certification grants and explains updated application requirements to State Workforce Agencies (SWA). The rest of Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) No. 15-24 remains the same.
 

Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) No. 09-24, Change 1 informs the state and local workforce development system of changes to the policies and priorities that govern the award and use of Disaster Recovery National Dislocated Worker Grant (DWG) funds, pursuant to the Work force Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA), Title I, Section 170.

Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) No. 10-25 provides information to states and outlying areas on Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) Title I Adult, Dislocated Worker, and Youth Activities program allotments for Program Year (PY) 2026; PY 2026 allotments for the Wagner-Peyser Act Employment Service (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 2026.

Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) No. 09-25 conveys the Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 funding allotments for the Work Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC) and application requirements for State Workforce Agencies (SWAs) for fiscal year 2026. 

Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) No. 08-25 announces the availability of approximately $85 million in formula funding to states and territories for a fourth round of State Apprenticeship Expansion Formula (herein referred to as “SAEF4”) grants.

This TEGL and its attachments contain information about the formula award, application requirements and procedures, program goals and objectives; expected performance outcomes; eligibility; funding restrictions, policies, and limitations; period of performance (POP); and post-award policies related to this grant program.

This FAQ addresses the implementation of the No Surprises Act.

Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) No. 10-26 advises states that the U.S. Department of Labor (Department) is enhancing its identity (ID) verification services offering via the U.S. General Services Administration’s (GSA) Login.gov and to announce a new funding opportunity to support state-incurred expenses related to participation in these ID verification services.

Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) No. 15-24, Change 2 provides State Workforce Agencies (SWAs) with an updated notice of the upcoming permanent transition of the Unemployment Insurance Required Reports (UIR) and Benefit Accuracy Measurement (BAM) applications from Unemployment Insurance Database Management System (UIDBMS) to Unemployment Insurance Reporting System (UIRS); to provide instructions to SWAs on how to submit data to UIRS; and to advise SWAs that starting January 20, 2026, all states must transmit their UIR data only through UIRS and that starting February 9, 2026, all states must transmit their BAM data only through UIRS.

Training and Employment Guidance Letter No. 10-23, Change 3, Rescission of Training and Employment Guidance Letter No. 10-23, Change 2: Work Authorization Verification in Grant Programs Administered by the Employment and Training Administration rescinds Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) 10-23, Change 2.

Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) No. 09-26 transmits the subject computation for State Workforce Agency usage in computing minimum weekly Disaster Unemployment Assistance (DUA) amounts for all major disasters declared from April 1 – June 30, 2026 (third quarter of Fiscal Year (FY) 2026).

Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) No. 08-26 provides reimbursement instructions to states attending the 2026 National UI Convening occurring March 10 – 11, 2026, at the Frances Perkins Building in Washington, D.C.

Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) No. 07-25 outlines the priorities, modification requirements, submission process, and deadline for the required modification of the WIOA Unified and Combined State Plans (State Plans) for PY 2026 and PY 2027, in accordance with Sections 102 and 103 of WIOA.

MSHA’s revalidation process requires that all directives be reviewed annually or biennially to ensure their content remains current. This PIB presents the results of the CY 2025 revalidation of MSHA’s program directives. Attachment 1 lists the program directives — Program Policy Manual (PPM) volumes, Program Policy Letters (PPLs), Procedure Handbooks (PHs), Procedure Instruction Letters (PILs), and PIBs — that remain valid and in effect; these will continue to be posted on MSHA’s public website. Attachment 2 lists a PH that has been cancelled as a result of the revalidation process. Accordingly, this directive is no longer considered valid guidance and will be removed from MSHA’s public website upon issuance of this bulletin. 

Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) No. 05-26 ensures State Workforce Agencies (SWAs) are aware of the social security survivors and old age retirement annuities and the Federal civilian pensions annual cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) increased for calendar year (CY) 2026.

Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) No. 06-26 transmits the subject computation for State Workforce Agency usage in computing minimum weekly Disaster Unemployment Assistance (DUA) amounts for all major disasters declared from January 1 – March 31, 2026 (second quarter of Fiscal Year (FY) 2026).

Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) No. 03-26 ensures State Workforce Agencies (SWAs) are aware of the Federal military retired pay annual COLA provided by the Department of Defense.

Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) No. 04-26 ensures states are aware of the locality-based salary rates for certain Federal civilian employees.

Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) No. 06-25 provides Employment and Training Administration (ETA) grant and cooperative agreement recipients (recipients) with information regarding the Payment Management System’s (PMS) mandatory payment request justification, ETA’s review and approval of payment request justifications, as well as to provide examples of acceptable payment request justifications.

Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) No. 11-23, Change 2, amends TEGL No. 11-23 Pursuant to Executive Order (EO) 14148, Initial Rescissions of Harmful Executive Orders and Actions.

Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) No. 08-24, Change 2 amends UIPL No. 08-24 Pursuant to Executive Order (EO) 14148, Initial Rescissions of Harmful Executive Orders and Actions.

Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) No. 02-26 removes certain language from the Summary and/or Background sections of Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) No. 16-20, Change 6; UIPL No. 16-20, Change 7; UIPL No. 16-20, Change 8; UIPL No. 28-20, Change 2; UIPL No. 28-20, Change 4; and UIPL No. 20-21, Change 1 to align with EO 14148.

Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) No. 01-26 provides State Workforce Agencies (SWAs) guidelines and key dates for the completion of the 2025 UI BAM paid and denied claims sample cases. 

Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) No. 23-19, Change 3, announces 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.

Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) No. 05-25 maximizes innovation in the public workforce system to 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.

This handbook sets forth the procedures for inspection personnel to follow when writing and issuing citations and orders for health, safety, training, and documentation violations at coal, metal, and nonmetal mines. It supersedes all previously issued instructions related to this subject except compliance-related instructions in the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) “Program Policy Manual.” The Administrator for Mine Safety and Health Enforcement must authorize changes to this handbook.

Whether, in the absence of language in the trust instrument which restricts or precludes the trustees of a union pension trust fund from authorizing voluntary disclosure of data to a government agency, such disclosure would be prohibited by section 406 of ERISA, and, if not, whether any provision of ERISA would preclude such a trust fund from assuming the reasonable costs of producing the data requested by the government agency.

This set of FAQs addresses excepted benefits for IVF.

Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) No. 16-24, Change 1, 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.

Whether certain parcels of real property owned by the defined benefit plans sponsored by an employer constitute "qualifying employer real property" under section 407(d)(4) of ERISA.

Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) No. 17-25 provides 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).

The Advisory Opinion concludes that the requestor’s Lifetime Income Strategy program meets the requirements to be a qualified default investment alternative under ERISA section 404(c)(5) and the Department’s implementing regulation at 29 CFR 2550.404c-5(e).

Concluding that the deferred incentive compensation program offered by Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC qualifies as an exempt "bonus program" under 29 C.F.R. § 2510.3-2(c) and is not an employee pension benefit plan subject to Title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974.

Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) No. 16-25 transmits 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).

Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) No. 04-25 provides 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). 

This Program Policy Letter (PPL) is intended for underground coal mine operators, miners and miners' representatives, independent contractors, Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) enforcement personnel, and other interested parties working in underground coal mines.

Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) No. 03-25 encourages 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.

Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) No. 15-25 provides 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.

Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) No. 15-24, Change 1, provides State Workforce Agencies (SWAs) with advance notice of the upcoming permanent transition of the UIR and BAM applications from UIDBMS to UIRS; to provide instructions to SWAs on how to submit data to UIRS; and to advise SWAs that effective December 6, 2025, all states must transmit their UIR data only through UIRS and BAM data only through UIRS starting December 27, 2025.

Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) No. 02-25 announces the availability of approximately $30 million for an initial round of the Industry-Driven Skills Training Fund (“Training Fund”) grants, with award amounts of up to $8 million. Pending the availability of funds, there may be additional rounds of this grant program. These grants will address critical workforce needs for in-demand skilled trade careers and in high-growth and emerging industries, in support of Executive Order 14278, Preparing Americans for High-Paying Skilled Trade Jobs of the Future and America’s AI Action Plan, and at least $5 million of the total available funding will be awarded to support training in the shipbuilding industry.

This set of FAQs addresses the No Surprises Act and limitations on cost sharing under the Affordable Care Act.

Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) No. 01-25 advises State Workforce Agencies, or agencies designated by Governors as “Cooperating State Agencies” (CSAs) (also jointly referred to as “states”) of the “by request” process and associated deadlines for receiving FY 2025 TAA Program TaOA funds.

Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) No. 13-25 reminds states of procedural requirements when funds are returned by a bank or financial institution and to provide guidance to states regarding the methodology states must use to allocate returned funds across Unemployment Compensation (UC) programs when no identifying claim information is available. This Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) also provides additional information and clarification regarding the reporting of overpayment activities on Unemployment Insurance (UI) Required Reports.

Whether a long-term disability program sponsored by the California Association of Professional Firefighters is an "employee welfare benefit plan" within the meaning of ERISA 3(1) sponsored by an "employees' beneficiary association" within the meaning of ERISA 3(4).

Whether the Key Employees Deferred Compensation and Retirement Plan is subject to Parts 2, 3, and 4 of Title I of ERISA.

This advisory opinion concerns the application of ERISA’s fiduciary responsibility provisions to a Citigroup program that involves a commitment by Citigroup and its affiliates to pay all or some portion of the investment management fees for diverse managers retained by Citi-sponsored employee benefit plans.

This Advisory Opinion rescinds Advisory Opinion 2023-01A.

Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) No. 10-23, Change 2, provides direction regarding work authorization verification for grant programs administered by the Employment and Training Administration (ETA).

Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) No. 07-18, Change 1 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. The guidance provides information about the guidelines States must use in developing procedures for ensuring the data submitted are valid and reliable, as required by section 116(d)(5) of WIOA.

Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) No. 26-16, Change 1 updates TEGL No. 26-16, issued June 1, 2017, and developed jointly by the U.S. Departments of Labor (DOL) and Education (ED) (collectively, the Departments). Within ED, the Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education (OCTAE) will update Program Memorandum (PM) 17-6 and the Rehabilitation Services Administration (RSA) will update Technical Assistance Circular(TAC) 17-04 to be consistent with the changes reflected herein.

Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) No. 08-21, Change 2, informs states, local areas, and other recipients of Department of Labor’s (DOL) Employment and Training Administration (ETA) funds that ETA Federal financial assistance awards cannot fund or reimburse the costs of voter registration activities conducted within the American Job Center (AJC) network.

Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) No. 16-24 provides Senior Community Service Employment Program (SCSEP) state and territory grantees with Program Year (PY) 2025 SCSEP allotments and the application instructions for PY 2025 grant submissions.

Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) No. 15-24 provides guidance to State Workforce Agencies (SWAs) applicable through FY 2027 and announces the grant allotments for FY 2025 foreign labor certification grants.

Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) No. 12-25 provides guidelines for the FY 2025 UI RESEA grants and invites State Workforce Agencies to submit RESEA State Plans.

Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) No. 14-24 provides guidelines for the FY 2025 UI RESEA grants and invites State Workforce Agencies to submit RESEA State Plans.

Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) No. 13-24 provides instructions to National Farmworker Jobs Program (NFJP) Career Services and Training grantees and Housing Services grantees for the submission of required documents for Program Year (PY) 2025 allotments and performance negotiations. Additionally, Attachment V of this guidance includes application instructions for grantees that wish to apply for additional PY 2025 NFJP Youth Services Grants.

This FAQ addresses the machine-readable file disclosure requirements under the Transparency in Coverage Final Rules.

Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) No. 12-24 provides WIOA Section 166 Indian and Native American (INA) Program grantees with Comprehensive Services Program (CSP) and Supplemental Youth Services Program (SYSP) funding allotments for Program Year (PY) 2025.

Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) No. 11-24 provides information to states and outlying areas on Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) Title I Adult, Dislocated Worker, and Youth Activities program allotments for Program Year (PY) 2025; PY 2025 allotments for the Wagner-Peyser Act Employment Service (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 2025.

Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) No. 11-25 transmits the subject computation for State Workforce Agency usage in computing minimum weekly DUA amounts for all major disasters declared from July 1 – September 30, 2025 (fourth quarter of Fiscal Year (FY) 2025).

Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) No. 08-21, Change 1, rescinds Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) No. 08-21.

This Bulletin provides guidance relating to the changes made to the annual funding notice requirements of section 101(f) of ERISA by the SECURE 2.0 Act of 2022.

Appendix 1 – Single-employer plan model | Appendix 2 – Multiemployer plan model

Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) No. 10-23, Change 1, rescinds TEGL No. 10-23.

Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) No. 08-24, Change 1, conveys additional Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 Work Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC) funding allotments and application requirements for State Workforce Agencies (SWA), based on funding appropriated through a second continuing resolution (CR#2) through March 14, 2025. The rest of Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) No. 08-24 remains the same.

Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) No. 10-25 transmits the subject computation for State Workforce Agency usage in computing minimum weekly DUA amounts for all major disasters declared from April 1 – June 30, 2025 (third quarter of Fiscal Year (FY) 2025).

Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) No. 18-16, Change 2, clarifies program eligibility for the National Farmworker Jobs Program (NFJP)authorized under Section 167 of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA).

Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) No. 10-24 provides guidance to states and other Employment and Training Administration (ETA) federal assistance award recipients and subrecipients on the limitation on salary and bonus payments that can be made using funds appropriated to ETA.

Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) No. 20-21, Change 2 informs states that applications for additional scenarios for blanket waivers of recoveries of established overpayments under Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) No. 20-21, Change 1, will no longer be accepted as of the publication date of this UIPL.

This FAQ addresses implementation of the No Surprises Act the gag clause prohibition provisions, including the attestation requirement.

This Bulletin announces a temporary enforcement policy under ERISA section 404(a) applicable to small retirement benefit payments owed to missing participants or beneficiaries that a responsible plan fiduciary voluntarily decides to pay over to a state unclaimed property fund from an ongoing defined contribution or defined benefit pension plan.

Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) No. 11-23, Change 2 advises states that to remain eligible for participation in NIDVO and have the U.S. Department of Labor (Department) directly cover at least two years of transaction costs subject to funding availability, states must implement one or both of the NIDVO services no later than December 31, 2025. To successfully deploy prior to this deadline, as described in more detail below, a state should begin the implementation process no later than October 20, 2025. 

Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) No. 11-19, Change 2, supersedes Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) 11-19, Change 1, published May 10, 2023, and rescinds TEGL 03-17 WIOA Annual Performance Report Submission, published September 12, 2017, developed jointly by the U.S. Departments of Labor and Education (the Departments). Through this updated guidance, the Departments:

• Revise the negotiations process and requirements to incorporate changes made in the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act Effectiveness in Serving Employers Performance Indicator final rule (89 FR 13814 (Feb. 23, 2024)) (ESE final rule). This final rule, which took effect March 25, 2024, defines the Effectiveness in Serving Employers primary indicator of performance (ESE), as required by section 116(b)(2)(A)(i)(VI) of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA), as Retention with the Same Employer. The ESE final rule requires states to report the indicator as a shared indicator across the six WIOA core programs.
• Include requirements for the annual performance report submission requirements to encompass all requirements in TEGL 03-17.
• Clarify the standard for meeting requirements for submission of Eligible Training Provider results.
• Clarify the standard for meeting requirements for local area performance negotiations.

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

Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) No. 13-23, Change 1, publishes final allocations for SCSEP National grantees for PY 2024 and provides the procedures for submitting Optional Special Requests and revised policies.

Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) No. 08-25 ensures states are aware of the locality-based salary rates for certain Federal civilian employees.

Whether the ICI Benefits Consortium Health Benefit Plan is an "employee welfare benefit plan" within the meaning of section 3(1) of ERISA that is maintained by a "group or association of employers" within the meaning of section 3(5) of ERISA.

Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) No. 06-25 transmits the subject computation for State Workforce Agency usage in computing minimum weekly DUA amounts for all major disasters declared from January 1 – March 31, 2025 (second quarter of Fiscal Year (FY) 2025).

TRAINING AND EMPLOYMENT GUIDANCE LETTER No. 09-24 informs the state and local workforce development system of the policies and priorities that govern the award and use of National Dislocated Worker Grant (DWG) funds, pursuant to the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA), Title I, Section 170.

Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) No. 05-25 ensures State Workforce Agencies (SWAs) are aware of the Federal military retired pay annual COLA provided by the Department of Defense.

Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) No. 04-25 ensures that states are aware that the social security survivors and old age retirement annuities and the Federal civilian pensions annual cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) increased for calendar year (CY) 2025, and to provide the U.S. Office of Personnel Management’s (OPM) COLA information.

Training Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) No. 07-24 announces the availability of up to $925,200 for National Farmworker Jobs Program (NFJP) Youth Grants.

Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) No. 08-24 conveys the Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 initial funding allotments for WOTC application requirements for State Workforce Agencies (SWA), based on funding appropriated through a continuing resolution through December 20, 2024. 

Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) No. 03-25 advises states that the deadline for accepting DUA applications has changed from 30 days to 60 days, for all disasters declared after March 23, 2024.

Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) No. 02-25 provides states with instructions for requesting continued workload-based administrative funding for CARES Act benefit programs. The programs covered under this Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) include Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation (PEUC), Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA), Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation (FPUC), and Mixed Earners Unemployment Compensation (MEUC).

Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) No. 02-12, Change 3 informs states of the discontinuation of the CWC 02-12 application in UI-ICON and provides an alternative method for paying states to communicate to the transferring state(s) an employer’s failure to timely or adequately respond to State Workforce Agencies’ (SWA) requests for information relating to a CWC.

This set of FAQs addresses coverage of preventive services.

Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) No. 05-24  provides guidance to Employment and Training Administration (ETA) grant recipients and subrecipients on the implementation of OMB’s Guidance for Federal Financial Assistance, which goes into effect on October 1, 2024.  The final guidance revises several parts of 2 CFR subtitle A, “OMB Guidance for Federal Financial Assistance” (formerly “OMB Guidance for Grants and Agreements”).  This includes revisions to 2 CFR part 200, Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements for Federal Awards “Uniform Guidance.”

Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) 01-25 advises states of sequestration rules for FY 2025 to ensure State Workforce Agencies (SWAs) apply these rules to mandatory UI programs. 

Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) 21-24 transmits the subject computation for State Workforce Agency usage in computing minimum weekly DUA amounts for all major disasters declared from October 1 – December 31, 2024 (first quarter of Fiscal Year (FY) 2025).

Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) No. 19-24 provides states with information about preliminary FY 2025 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.

Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) No. 17-24 announces the availability of additional funding to cover ongoing administrative costs related to reporting, data retention, audit-related and oversight activities, efforts to detect, establish and recover overpayments, and financial reconciliation efforts associated with the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA), Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation (PEUC), and Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation (FPUC) programs and the provisions of Section 2105 of the CARES Act for Temporary Full Federal Funding of the First week of Compensable Regular Unemployment for States with No Waiting Week (Section 2105).

Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) No. 03-24 transmits Veterans Program Letter (VPL) 05-24, Jobs for Veterans State Grants Staff Roles and Responsibilities, and Coordination with Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act Services to Veterans, jointly developed by the Employment and Training Administration (ETA) and Veterans’ Employment and Training Service (VETS). VPL 05-24 clarifies JVSG statutory duties, roles, and responsibilities such staff are expected to perform and discusses relationship between JVSG and other programs within the workforce system. Additionally, the guidance is designed to update state workforce professionals about AJC staff roles with JVSG. It emphasizes statutory duties and describes staffing flexibilities available to states to meet their JVSG responsibilities while maximizing the integration of services and collaboration of partners in the AJCs.
 

Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) No. 02-24 provides guidance to recipients of the Department of Labor’s (Department) Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 Community Project Funding/Congressionally Directed Spending, specified in Appendix I: Eligible Applicants.

Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) No. 01-24 advises State Workforce Agencies, or agencies designated by Governors as “Cooperating State Agencies” (CSAs) (also jointly referred to as “states”) of the state distribution amounts of FY 2024 TAA Program TaOA funds.

Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) No. 16-24 initiates the FY 2025 SQSP process and defines additional requirements relevant to the FY.

Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) No. 15-24 provides State Workforce Agencies (SWAs) with advance notice of the upcoming permanent transition of the DV and TPS applications from UIDBMS to UIRS; instructions to submit DV and TPS data to UIRS; and the decommissioning of the DV and TPS applications in UIDBMS effective August 15, 2024.