To provide guidance on identifying the respective relationships, roles, and responsibilities of SMAs and NFJP grantees as they pertain to the MOU.

To announce the rate of interest that the U.S. Department of the Treasury (Treasury) will charge on Title XII advances during CY 2018.

To provide ETA funding recipients and stakeholders with information about how a temporary suspension of the Federal government impacts the execution of ETA-funded programs and services.

To ensure states are aware of the Schedule of Remuneration for the UCX program that reflects the military pay increase effective January 1, 2018.

To provide an update on the Unemployment Insurance (UI) Integrity Center's activities and to announce the launch of the Integrity Center's Suspicious Actor Repository (SAR), the Integrity Knowledge Exchange, the National Integrity Academy, and upcoming Informational Webinars.

To announce the publication of the Senior Community Service Employment Program Interim Final Rule in the Federal Register on December 1, 2017.

This guidance provides states with revised allotment levels for WIOA Adult and Dislocated Worker FY 2018 funds, which became available to states on October 1, 2017. This Change 1 to TEGL 27-16 revises the funding available to states in October 2017 to reflect the 0.6791 percent reduction enacted in the short-term Continuing Appropriations Act for FY 2018 and corrects the amounts for Youth and Adult small state minimum allotments.

To announce the release and availability of the Significant Provisions of State Unemployment Insurance Laws Effective July 2017.

The U.S. Departments of Labor (DOL) and Education (ED) (collectively, Departments) are exercising their transition authority under section 503(a) of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) to inform States that the Departments will consider Program Year (PY) 2016 WIOA Statewide and Local Performance Reports (form ETA-9169) submitted by October 16, 2017, as being timely. For all subsequent PYs, States must submit the WIOA Statewide and Local Performance Report by October 1 to be considered timely, pursuant to the "Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) Performance Accountability, Information and Reporting System" information collection request (WIOA Joint Performance ICR).

The WIOA Joint Performance ICR, approved under OMB Control Number 1205-0526, contains the performance accountability reporting requirements for the core programs identified in WIOA and authorized under:

• WIOA title I and administered by DOL;
• the Adult Education and Family Literacy Act (AEFLA) program, authorized under WIOA title II and administered by ED;
• the Employment Service program authorized under the Wagner-Peyser Act, as amended by WIOA title III and administered by DOL; and
• the Vocational Rehabilitation (VR) program authorized under title I of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended by WIOA title IV and administered by ED.

To provide an updated directory of Federal agencies that request detailed Unemployment Compensation for Federal Employees (UCFE) or Unemployment Compensation for Ex-Servicemembers (UCX) benefit payment data, which support the United States Department of Labor's (Department) quarterly unemployment compensation billings.