To provide information and procedural guidance to the State Workforce Agencies (SWAs) for processing requests for certification under the WOTC program after the December 31, 2011, expiration date for non-veteran target groups.

The intent of this guidance is to provide states with revised allotment levels for WIA Adult and Dislocated Worker Fiscal Year 2012 funds which became available to states in October 2011. The original TEGL 9-11 indicated a 1.503 percent temporary rate of operations reduction; Change 1 amends this to a 0.189 percent rescission providing all fifty states and territories with additional funding.

The intent of this Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) is to provide guidance on the types of work sites that are acceptable for construction training for YouthBuild participants, describe the minimum construction activities allowed for work site training, and clarify the policy around successful exit as it pertains to hands-on occupational training. (This is a WIOA related advisory.)

The purposes of this guidance are: to update Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) No. 6-09, issued September 15, 2009 by describing the non-substantive changes that have been approved since then; to replace Attachment A: Data Preparation and Reporting Handbook (2009 TAPR Handbook), with TEGL No. 6-09, Change 1, Attachment A: 2012 Data Preparation and Reporting Handbook (2012 TAPR Handbook); and to make available a table of data validation edit checks for the TAPR, as Attachment B to this TEGL.

To expand and clarify the definition of homeless as a SBE provided in Section 4 of TEGL 19-13, Change 1, dated February 11, 2015.

To provide guidance to the states regarding the content of the WIA Annual Report narrative; including strategies for serving veterans, acceptable approaches to fulfilling the customer satisfaction requirements, and the procedures for submission to the Employment and Training Administration (ETA). The Annual Report is due on Tuesday, December 15, 2015.

This guidance provides states with revised allotment levels for WIOA Adult and Dislocated Worker FY 2016 funds, which became available to states in October 2015. This Change 3 to TEGL 29-14 revises the funding available to states on October 2015 to reflect the 0.2108 percent reduction enacted in the short-term Continuing Appropriations Resolution for FY 2016.

To provide guidance and planning information to states, local workforce areas, and other recipients of Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) Title I youth formula funds on the activities associated with the implementation of WIOA.

To inform State Workforce Agencies (SWAs) of Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approval of the extension, without any changes, of the Work Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC) reporting, administrative, and processing forms under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA).

To provide the State Workforce Agencies (SWAs) information on the extension of the EZs' new expiration date, the date when SWAs can start processing certification requests for the two target groups which require its members to reside in EZs, and a new EZ locator tool.