To provide planning guidelines and instructions to Indian and Native American grantees for the development of a One-Year Comprehensive Services Program (CSP) plan and Supplemental Youth Services Program (SYSP) plan for PY 2011, consistent with the purposes described in WIA Section 166.

This Training and Employment Guidance Letter has two purposes: A. To provide states and local areas with an overview of the Fiscal Year (FY) 2011 appropriations (P.L. 112-10) for the following DOL-managed employment and training services: WIA Adult, Dislocated Worker, and Youth formula funds, Employment Service Grants to States, the Workforce Innovation Fund, Dislocated Worker National Reserve funds, YouthBuild, the Indian and Native American Program, the Migrant and Seasonal Farmworker Program, the Career Pathways Innovation Fund, the Green Jobs Innovation Fund, the Reintegration of Ex-Offenders, and the Community Service Employment for Older Americans (CSEOA) program, also known as the Senior Community Service Employment Program (SCSEP). B. To provide guidance on and the amount of FY 2011 Adult and Dislocated Worker Program formula funds for PY 2010 to be rescinded for each state as required by Public Law (P.L.) 112-10, Full-Year Continuing Appropriations Act, 2011.

To provide states with notice that TAA data element validation is not required for FY 2010.

This guidance provides SCSEP grant applicants with application instructions, procedures, and allotments for Program Year (PY) 2011 funds, with a period of performance beginning July 1, 2011.

To provide states with WIA Title I Adult, Dislocated Worker and Youth Activities program allotments for PY 2011; final allotments for PY 2011 Wagner-Peyser Employment Service (ES) Program, as required by section 6(b)(5) of the Wagner-Peyser Act, as amended; and the Workforce Information Grants to States allotments for PY 2011.

To provide INA grantees with Comprehensive Services Program (CSP) and Supplemental Youth Services Program (SYSP) funding allotments for PY 2020 for the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA), Section 166 programs, and to notify grantees of the required submission of Standard Form (SF) 424 - Application for Federal Assistance, SF 424A - Budget Information (Non-Construction Programs), and Budget Narrative.

To inform and remind the workforce investment system of the performance reporting requirements and associated timelines for submitting quarterly and annual reports and data validation results for the Workforce Investment Act (WIA) title IB programs and National Emergency Grants (NEG); Wagner-Peyser Act Employment Service; activities authorized under chapter 41 of title 38 United States Code (Local Veterans’ Employment Representative and Disabled Veterans’ Outreach Programs); the Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) program; the Indian and Native American Program (INAP); and the National Farmworker Jobs Program (NFJP). This guidance also specifies that the 2011 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) supplemental reports requirements will be the final ARRA reports.

This Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) provides SCSEP state, and territory grantees with PY 2020 SCSEP allotments and the application instructions for PY 2020 grant submissions.

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.

This guidance letter updates the procedures states should follow to apply for WIA section 503 Incentive Grants.