To respond to questions from State Workforce Agencies (SWAs) or agencies designated by Governors as “Cooperating State Agencies” (CSAs) (also jointly referred to as “states”) that administer the Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) Program, as amended by the TAAEA.

This Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) has two purposes:

1. To provide updates and clarifications on waiver policies including those originally articulated in TEGL 26-09; and
2. To provide information on work-flex quarterly reports, and to announce renewal of Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approval for work-flex plan submission and quarterly reports.

To request that states designate ASUs in order for the Employment and Training Administration (ETA) to allot funds under WIA for the period beginning on July 1, 2013.

To advise States of the changes to LERS necessary to implement Sections 211, 238, and 239 of the VOW to Hire Heroes Act of 2011 (VOW Act) and Section 2149 of the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012, as well as for collecting performance data related to the Veterans’ Gold Card Initiative

To inform the public workforce system about the required process for outreaching to and tracking outcomes of VRAP participants. This includes how the Department of Labor (DOL) will make available VRAP participant information to the public workforce system and procedures for American Job Center (formerly One-Stop Career Center) staff to offer VRAP participants employment assistance upon program completion or termination as required by the VOW to Hire Heroes Act of 2011. This guidance also provides reporting specifications for reporting public workforce system outreach activities and the employment outcomes of VRAP participants.

To provide further information to the workforce investment system about the importance of providing workforce, training, and referral services to victims of human trafficking and to give updated guidance on how to deliver these services under the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (WIA), the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (TVPA) and the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Acts of 2003, 2005 and 2008 (TVPRA).

To inform the workforce investment system of the updated performance reporting requirements and revised associated timelines for the following Employment and Training Administration (ETA) programs and activities: 

• Quarterly and annual reports and data validation results for the Workforce Investment Act (WIA) Title IB programs and National Emergency Grants (NEGs);
• Quarterly reports and data validation results for the 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); and,
• The Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) program.

To respond to questions from states about new requirements for the EUC RES/REA for certain recipients of EUC.

To transmit the new EUC08 RES/REA required reports (ETA 9128u, Reemployment Services and Reemployment and Eligibility Assessments for EUC08 Claimants; and ETA 9002, EUC Quarterly Report Services to Participants & Performance Outcomes for Exiters)and reporting instructions to state workforce agencies.

To provide the state workforce agencies (SWAs) final processing guidance on handling all timely filed certification requests received for new hires that began employment for an employer on or before December 31, 2010, and instructions for all paperwork associated with timely filed certification requests for new hires that began employment for an employer, under the expired groups, after December 31, 2010.