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TRAINING AND EMPLOYMENT NOTICE NO. 17-24 DATE December 30 2024 EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING ADMINISTRATION U.S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR WASHINGTON D.C. 20210 TO STATE WORKFORCE AGENCIES ALL STATE WORKFORCE LIAISONS FROM JOS JAVIER RODR GUEZ Assistant Secretary SUBJECT Planning Estimate for Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act WIOA Youth Adult and Dislocated Worker Program Allotments for Program Year PY 2025 1.Purpose. To transmit to states and outlying areas the impact of updated data on WIOA Title I Youth Adult and Dislocated Worker program allotments for PY 2025. 2.Action Requested. The Department of Labor Department is requesting that states use these allotment estimates to plan for PY 2025 activities. States can actively review their obligations and expenditures on in-person and virtual service delivery as areas around the country have been responding to the changing economy and labor market. States should consider ways to adjust spending to provide the services that are needed most by jobseekers and employers and ensure that Title I funds are used to assist jobseekers find and retain employment with employers offering quality jobs. 3.Summary and Background. a.Summary For planning purposes the Employment and Training Administration ETA is providing estimated allotment levels for the WIOA Youth Adult and Dislocated Worker programs to show the impact of updated unemployment data on state allotments for PY 2025. The table is not meant to predict each state s allotment. ETA based the estimated allotment levels provided in this Training and Employment Notice TEN on PY 2024 appropriated funding levels which will be adjusted when the Fiscal Year FY 2025 full-year appropriation is enacted and reserves are made for evaluations and program integrity. b.Background Every year ETA calculates allotments based on statutory formulas that require ETA to adjust funding from one state relative to another based on factors that change year to year such as relative share of unemployment. The attached table shows how changes from last year in relative share of unemployment and other factors change the relative share of allotments for state planning purposes. ETA will publish final amounts available for state grants in its annual allotment guidance once Congress enacts a full-year appropriation for FY 2025 and after the Department determines set asides for evaluations and program integrity. 2 The funding levels in this guidance letter can provide states with a general idea of how their funding may change in PY 2025. To date Congress enacted the Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act 2025 P.L. 118-83 and the Further Consolidated Appropriations Act 2024 P.L. 118-47 . 4. Planning Estimates. a. Methodology - To provide states with estimated PY 2025 funding levels to use for planning purposes ETA 1 used the data that ETA will use to calculate the actual PY 2025 allotments and 2 estimated funding for the WIOA Adult Dislocated Worker and Youth programs based on the full-year funding levels for these programs in PY 2024 as indicated in Training and Employment Guidance Letter TEGL 12-23. See Allotments TEGL 12-23 for further descriptions of the funding levels used as well as descriptions of the WIOA Youth Adult and Dislocated Worker formulas and data factors. ETA used the following funding levels to prepare allotment estimates for PY 2025 WIOA Youth Activities total 927 587 911 for states and 2 324 782 for outlying areas. WIOA Adult Activities total 881 089 755 for states and 2 208 245 for outlying areas and WIOA Dislocated Worker Activities total 1 092 713 000 for states and 3 483 930 for outlying areas. ETA used the following data in the WIOA Adult and Youth formulas The average number of unemployed individuals for Areas of Substantial Unemployment ASUs for the 12-month period July 2023 through June 2024. The number of excess unemployed individuals or excess unemployed individuals in ASUs depending on which is higher averages for the same 12-month period as used for ASU unemployed data and The number of disadvantaged Youth or for the Adult formula the number of disadvantaged Adults based on special tabulations of data from the Census Bureau s American Community Survey ACS collected between January 1 2016 and December 31 2020. ETA used the following data in the WIOA Dislocated Worker State formula The number of unemployed averaged for the 12-month period October 2023 through September 2024 The number of excess unemployed averaged for the 12-month period October 2023 through September 2024 and The number of long-term unemployed averaged for the 12-month period October 2023 through September 2024. 3 b. Final Allotment Levels - ETA will issue the final PY 2025 allotment levels for WIOA Title I Youth Adult Dislocated Worker Wagner-Peyser Act Employment Service and Workforce Information Grant programs to states based on the full-year appropriation for FY 2025 and after making decisions on the set aside amounts. 5. Inquiries. Please direct questions regarding these estimated full-year allotments to the appropriate Regional Office. 6. References. Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act 2025 P.L. 118-83 Further Consolidated Appropriations Act 2024 P.L. 118-47 Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act P.L. 113-128 as amended and TEGL No. 12-23 May 8 2024 Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act WIOA Adult Dislocated Worker and Youth Activities Program Allotments for Program Year PY 2024 PY 2024 Allotments for the Wagner-Peyser Act Employment Service ES Program and PY 2024 Allotments of Workforce Information Grants to States and Outlying Areas. 7. Attachment. Planning Estimate PY 2025 WIOA Youth Adult and Dislocated Worker State Allotments