This guidance provides states with revised allotment levels for WIOA Adult and Dislocated Worker FY 2017 funds, which became available to states in October 2016. Change 1 to Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) No. 17-15 indicated a 0.496 percent reduction to funding available to states on October 2016. Change 2 amended the reduction amount to 0.1901 percent. Change 3 fully restores funding to the originally appropriated levels.

To inform State Workforce Agencies (SWA), Monitor Advocates (MA), and Foreign Labor Certification State Coordinators (FLCSC) of the 2017 "Monitor Advocate and Foreign Labor Certification Training," sponsored by the Employment and Training Administration (ETA). The training will be held at the Crown Plaza Hotel in Albuquerque, New Mexico July 11-13, 2017. Some Regional Monitor Advocates (RMA) may request that the State Monitor Advocates (SMA) in their region stay until 12pm on Friday for pre-harvest discussions.

To correct and change the word "infrastructure" to "additional" in the last full sentence of the third bullet on page 37 of Attachment II. The statement should read, "MOUs can also consider how SCSEP will consider SCSEP participants' community service hours as an in-kind contribution for purposes of SCSEP's contribution towards additional costs;" not infrastructure costs. Everything else remains the same. TEGL 17-16 provides additional clarification on infrastructure funding and additional costs that are shared by one-stop partners in the one-stop local delivery system.

To provide information to States and outlying areas on WIOA Title I Adult, Dislocated Worker and Youth Activities program allotments for PY 2017; final allotments for PY 2017 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 2017.

The purpose of this guidance is to provide sub-regulatory guidance on the requirements established by the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) and its implementing regulations regarding the use of supplemental wage information, when appropriate, to assist in carrying out the performance accountability requirements under section 116 of WIOA.

To inform states of the removal of 20 CFR Part 620 - Occupations that Regularly Conduct Drug Testing for State Unemployment Compensation Eligibility Determination Purposes and the effect on state unemployment compensation (UC) programs. This guidance rescinds Unemployment Insurance Letter (UIPL) No. 01-15, Change 1, issued on December 6, 2016.

To advise state workforce agencies of the release and publication of the Unemployment Insurance (UI) Call Center Study Final Report.

The Employment and Training Administration (ETA) announces the release and availability of the report titled: Evidence-Building Capacity in State Workforce Agencies: Insights from a National Scan and Two State Site Visits, prepared by the National Association of State Workforce Agencies (NASWA), and associated Training and Employment Notice (TEN).

To announce the release and availability of the Comparison of State Unemployment Insurance Laws 2017.

To transmit an updated Attachment providing a new Employment and Training Administration (ETA) Form number (ETA 9178) for the Quarterly Program Reporting Form for required reporting of quarterly progress and implementation updates for UI SBR grants.

To transmit revisions to ET Handbook 410, 5th Edition, RJM.

To provide information on the virtual WIPS User Resource Library Information Page, which contains a growing library of documents intended to help WIPS users better understand the workflow of the system and provide answers to frequently asked questions.

To provide State Workforce Agencies (SWAs) guidelines and key dates for the completion of the 2017 UI BAM paid and denied claims sample cases and the publication of 2017 BAM data.

To provide guidance for the funding and management of FY 2017 annual grant allocations in order to perform FLC program activities.

To reissue and update guidance provided in General Administration Letter (GAL) No. 4-88, Unemployment Insurance (UI) Internal Security (IS) Policy, for use by the states in carrying out their responsibilities related to IS for UI operations.

To provide adjusted funding levels for PY 2016 allotments for the Dislocated Worker program under WIOA Title I Section 132(c) on recapture and reallotment.

To transmit the subject computation for State Workforce Agency usage in computing minimum weekly DUA amounts for all major disasters declared during the third quarter of Fiscal Year (FY) 2017.

To provide INA grantees with Planning Estimates for the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA), Section 166, Indian and Native American (INA) Program, Comprehensive Services (CS) and Supplemental Youth Services (SYS) for PY 2017.

This guidance provides states with revised allotment levels for WIOA Adult and Dislocated Worker FY 2017 funds, which became available to states in October 2016. Change 1 to TEGL 17-15 indicated a 0.496 percent reduction to funding available to states on October 2016. Change 2 amends this to a 0.1901 percent reduction as enacted in the short-term Further Continuing Appropriations Act for FY 2017, providing all fifty seven state and outlying area grantees with additional funding.

To bring attention to the revised Federal poverty guidelines for administrators of the SCSEP.