This advisory provides guidance for funding of ATAA administrative costs.

To transmit a checklist of current GALs.

To correct and change the word "infrastructure" to "additional" in the last full sentence of the third bullet on page 37 of Attachment II. The statement should read, "MOUs can also consider how SCSEP will consider SCSEP participants' community service hours as an in-kind contribution for purposes of SCSEP's contribution towards additional costs;" not infrastructure costs. Everything else remains the same. TEGL 17-16 provides additional clarification on infrastructure funding and additional costs that are shared by one-stop partners in the one-stop local delivery system.

To encourage labor representatives on state and local Workforce Investment Boards (WIBs) to attend the 2004 training conferences sponsored by the AFL-CIO Working for America Institute. The conferences will be held May 12-14 in San Diego, California, and May 19-21 in New York, New York.

To inform State Workforce Agencies (SWA), Monitor Advocates (MA), and Foreign Labor Certification State Coordinators (FLCSC) of the 2017 "Monitor Advocate and Foreign Labor Certification Training," sponsored by the Employment and Training Administration (ETA). The training will be held at the Crown Plaza Hotel in Albuquerque, New Mexico July 11-13, 2017. Some Regional Monitor Advocates (RMA) may request that the State Monitor Advocates (SMA) in their region stay until 12pm on Friday for pre-harvest discussions.

To provide State Employment Security Agencies (SESAs) with guidance with regard to the WOTC program and WtW Tax Credit.

To educate workforce leaders about building new and successful partnerships between the WIA system and faith-based and community organizations (FBCO), and to announce a new grant opportunity for workforce investment boards (WIB) that successfully demonstrate the ability to partner with FBCOs.

This guidance provides states with revised allotment levels for WIOA Adult and Dislocated Worker FY 2017 funds, which became available to states in October 2016. Change 1 to Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) No. 17-15 indicated a 0.496 percent reduction to funding available to states on October 2016. Change 2 amended the reduction amount to 0.1901 percent. Change 3 fully restores funding to the originally appropriated levels.

To transmit estimated employer contribution rates for 1996 and 1997.

To advise states of an amendment to the definition of wages in Federal unemployment compensation (UC) law related to the treatment of employer payments made for a Health Savings Account.