This guidance provides states and outlying areas with revised allotment levels for WIOA Title I Adult, DW, Youth, and Wagner-Peyser Act ES PY 2019 funds. This Change 1 to Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) 16-18 revises the PY 2019 appropriated funding set aside for program integrity and evaluation purposes.

To announce the release and availability of two evaluation reports and two briefs on the Self-Employment Training (SET) Demonstration.

This guidance describes additional indicators of performance for the INA program, and provides guidance on submitting waivers to statutory and regulatory requirements, including to the primary indicators of performance at Section 116(b)(2)(A) of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA).

To announce the availability of BAM training for National, Regional, and state personnel responsible for monitoring and/or investigating the accuracy of paid and denied claims in State Unemployment Insurance (UI), Unemployment Compensation for Federal Employees (UCFE), and Unemployment Compensation for Ex-Servicemembers (UCX) programs.

To announce the release and availability of the report titled, Comparing State and National Approaches to Education and Training Program Scorecards.

To announce the release and availability of the Significant Provisions of State Unemployment Insurance Laws, effective July 2019.

To announce and solicit nominations for the 2019 Federal-State UC Legislative Enhanced Seminar Series.

To provide guidance on real property issues, including using grant funds for capital expenditures and other real property costs, depreciation, maintaining insurance, handling idle facilities and idle facility capacity, retaining records, disposing of real property acquired with Employment and Training Administration (ETA) grant funds, renting real property, and using and disposing of State Workforce Agency (SWA) real property that has Federal (Department of Labor) equity or Reed Act equity.

To announce the release and availability of the final report from the evaluation of the Jobs Innovation and Accelerator Challenge Grants (JIAC).

To announce the release and availability of two evaluation reports and an issue brief synthesizing impact findings from the YPD, and associated public use data files.