To rescind revised Appendix E of ET Handbook No. 407 and Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) No. 16-23, Issuance of Revised Appendix E of the Employment and Training (ET) Handbook No. 407.

This Change 1 to Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) No. 06-23 conveys additional Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 WOTC funding allotments and application requirements for State Workforce Agencies (SWAs), based on funding appropriated through a continuing resolution (CR) through February 2, 2024. The rest of TEGL No. 06-23 remains the same.

To advise and provide clarity to State Workforce Agencies or agencies designated by Governors as “Cooperating State Agencies” (CSAs or “States”) on the ongoing required activities under the TAA Program pending reauthorization.

To ensure states are aware of the locality-based salary rates for certain Federal civilian employees.

To announce the Department of Labor’s (Department’s) interpretation concerning the application of state finality laws to temporary UC programs created under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, as amended.

To transmit the subject computation for State Workforce Agency usage in computing minimum weekly DUA amounts for all major disasters declared from January 1 – March 31, 2024 (second quarter of Fiscal Year (FY) 2024).

To ensure states are aware of the Schedule of Remuneration for the UCX program that reflects the military pay increase effective January 1, 2024.
 

To ensure State Workforce Agencies (SWAs) are aware of the Federal military retired pay annual COLA provided by the Department of Defense.

To ensure 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) 2024, and to provide the U.S. Office of Personnel Management’s (OPM) COLA information.

To provide a checklist of all currently active ETA advisories as well as a checklist of all ETA advisories rescinded/cancelled since the previously issued checklists.