To announce the availability of up to $325,200 in additional funding for National Farmworker Jobs Program youth funding.  

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 updates Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) 10-16, Change 1, published August 23, 2017, and developed jointly by the U.S. Departments of Labor (DOL) and Education (ED) (the Departments). Within ED, the Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education (OCTAE) will update Program Memorandum (PM) 17-2 and the Rehabilitation Services Administration (RSA) will update Technical Assistance Circular (TAC) 17-01 to be consistent with the changes reflected herein. With this issuance, the Departments update the guidance to reflect changes made to the information collection request (OMB Control No. 1205-0526) after August 23, 2017, and incorporate other changes to improve clarity of the guidance.

To provide INA grantees with Comprehensive Services Program (CSP) and Supplemental Youth Services Program (SYSP) funding allotments for PY 2022 for the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA), Section 166 programs.  This TEGL also provides guidance on excess carry-in of funding at the end of PY 2021.

To update TAADI instructions, previously issued in Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) No. 01-19. TAADI is a required component of quarterly reporting submitted by State Workforce Agencies or agencies designated by Governors as “Cooperating State Agencies” (“states”) and established procedures for corrective action by the U.S. Department of Labor (Department) in the event of non-compliance. The updated guidance provides clarifying language and better captures how the TAADI process adapts over time.

To advise eligible entities that the deadline for submitting a grant application for the QUEST Disaster Recovery DWGs is extended to August 15, 2022.

To provide guidance for the Department of Labor’s (Department) Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 Community Project Funding/Congressionally Directed Spending recipients specified in Appendix I.

To announce the availability of up to $140 million for Quality Jobs, Equity, Strategy, and Training (QUEST) Disaster Recovery National Dislocated Worker Grants (DWGs), with award amounts of up to $15 million. These funds will enhance the public workforce system’s ongoing efforts to empower America’s unemployed and underemployed workers through worker and business engagement, elevate equity, and connect jobseekers with high-quality jobs.

To provide program guidance for the development, management, and delivery of workforce and labor market information (WLMI) funded through the Workforce and Labor Market Information Grants to States (WIGS).

To inform the state and local workforce development system of the policies and priorities that govern the award and use of National Dislocated Worker Grant (DWG) funds, pursuant to the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA), Title I, Section 170.