To announce the rate of interest that the U.S. Department of the Treasury (Treasury) will charge on Title XII advances during CY 2025.

To notify all Employment and Training Administration (ETA) recipients about changes ETA is making to federal financial assistance awards to prohibit activities described in President Trump’s Executive Orders (EOs) titled, “Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing,” issued on January 20, 2025, and “Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity,” issued on January 21, 2025.

To provide a checklist of all currently active ETA Training and Employment Guidance Letters (TEGLs) and all currently active Unemployment Compensation Program Letters (UCPLs)/Unemployment Insurance Program Letters (UIPLs) as well as a checklist of all ETA TEGLS and all ETA UCPLs/UIPLs rescinded/cancelled since the previously issued checklists.

To provide 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.

To help state workforce agencies (SWA) and their partners develop a comprehensive, adaptable and strategic disaster preparedness and response planning process that can be quickly implemented by staff and partners who are well-trained, well-aligned, and fully supported, ETA is publishing The Disaster Lifecycle from Preparedness through Resiliency: A Guide for State Workforce Agencies (the Guide).

To clarify program eligibility for the National Farmworker Jobs Program (NFJP) authorized under Section 167 of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA).

To inform 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.

To update Training and Employment Notice (TEN) No. 27-23, Change 1 regarding states’ implementation of the Final Rule, Improving Protections for Workers in Temporary Agricultural Employment in the United States, 89 FR 33898 (Apr. 29, 2024) (Farmworker Protection Rule), in light of recent Federal District Court Orders.

To advise 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.

To provide urgent instructions to State Workforce Agencies (SWAs) on data retention requirements for temporary pandemic-related UC programs, authorized under the CARES Act, as amended. This guidance reflects a change in policy and replaces prior guidance on this specific topic.