To strongly encourage states to expend their allotment from the $500 million special distribution under the Recovery Act as quickly as feasible and prudent in accordance with the intent of the Recovery Act to preserve and create jobs and promote economic recovery.

To ensure states are aware that:
1) the social security survivors and old age retirement annuities and the Federal civilian pensions annual cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) will increase for calendar year 2012, and
2) COLA information may be found on the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Web site.

1) To provide successful strategies to the public workforce system for connecting individuals with transportation to jobs and training, and
2) to help businesses access a diverse workforce.

To transmit the subject computation for State Workforce Agency usage in computing minimum weekly DUA amounts for all major disasters declared during the second quarter of Fiscal Year (FY) 2012.

To advise states of the latest extension of the Emergency Unemployment Compensation (EUC08) program and temporary Extended Benefit (EB) provisions.

To announce the release and availability of ETA Occasional Paper: Implementation and Early Training Outcomes of the High Growth Job Training Initiative (HGJTI): Final Report.

To announce the release and availability of the ETA Occasional Paper, Evaluation of the Technology-Based Learning Grants Final Report, prepared by Social Policy Research (SPR) Associates.

To provide the state workforce agencies (SWAs) clarification on the use of documents used to verify eligibility for WOTC, in order to support the uninterrupted processing of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Recovery Act) Disconnected Youth related eligible certification requests.

To advise states of the statutory amendments related to UC program integrity included in the TAAEA (Public Law (Pub. L.) 112-40), enacted on October 21, 2011.

To transmit a revision of the State UI DV Operations Guide (ET Operations Guide 411).

To announce an exciting new tool for the UI system that allows for knowledge sharing, dissemination of successful practices, program improvements, reemployment and integrity-related initiatives as well as networking through use of a flexible technology platform. The UI COP Web site is an online resource that states and the U.S. Department of Labor (Department) jointly own to highlight and showcase UI program initiatives that promote exemplary UI program operations and enhanced program performance.

To announce the availability of an updated Workforce Investment Act/Wagner-Peyser Act (WIA/W-P) waiver database and an optional submission template that may be used by states to request waivers.

This Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) provides information on the Selective Service registration requirements for Workforce Investment Act-funded services established by the Workforce Investment Act (WIA) § 189(h), codified at 20 CFR 667.250, and the Military Selective Service Act (50 U.S.C. App. 453), codified at 32 CFR Part 1605.

To assist State Workforce Agencies or agencies designated by Governors as “Cooperative State Agencies” (CSAs) (also jointly referred to as “states”) implement the provisions of the TAAEA enacted on October 21, 2011. The TAAEA amends the Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) program (2011 Amendments), restoring (with some exceptions) the expanded certification criteria and benefits and services provided under the Trade and Globalization Adjustment Act of 2009 (2009 Amendments).

To inform the public workforce system about the availability of AT resources for customers with disabilities.

The purpose of this Training and Employment Notice (TEN) is to provide information on the new “Gold Card” initiative of the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) for Post-9/11 Era Veterans.

The purpose of this notice is twofold:
1) To introduce ETA’s Competency Model for Health – Electronic Health Records (EHR), a resource for training and upgrading the skills of the health industry workforce impacted by the implementation of EHR; and
2) To provide a Resource Guide for Health Information Technology, a tool for supporting the workforce requirements anticipated during the widespread adoption of electronic health records.

To advise states that on October 31, 2011, the current Withdrawal/Invalid Claim (WIC) application will be discontinued and a new “enhanced” WIC application, called WIC2, will be implemented on November 1, 2011.

Per recent Congressional action, this Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) has two purposes:
a) To provide states with revised allotment levels for the WIA Adult and Dislocated Worker Fiscal Year 2012 “advance” funds which become available to states in October 2011. The revised levels are based on the 1.503 temporary rate of operations reduction included in the short-term Continuing Appropriations Acts of 2012.
b) To clarify that the Governors’ Reserve is set at five percent for all Performance Year 2011 WIA funds.

To provide information to all U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) funded YouthBuild programs about required documentation for participant eligibility and for validating performance outcomes.