To provide guidance to the workforce system on delivering services under the Adult and Dislocated Worker programs under WIOA Title I, and individuals served by the ES program, as amended by WIOA Title III, under the WIOA Final Rule.

WIOA, signed into law on July 22, 2014, supersedes titles I and II of the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (WIA) and amends the Wagner-Peyser Act of 1933 and the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. In general, WIOA took effect on July 1, 2015, the first full program year after enactment, unless otherwise noted. On August 19, 2016, the Departments of Labor (DOL) and Education published the WIOA Final Rules in the Federal Register. The DOL-only rule became fully effective on October 18, 2016, 60 days after it was published on the Federal Register.

In order to continue implementation of WIOA prior to publication of the final rule, DOL issued a Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) 3-15, on July 1, 2015, which provided guidance to the public workforce system on delivering services to adults and dislocated workers under WIOA. This TEGL rescinds TEGL 3-15, and provides updated guidance to the public workforce system on service delivery to adults and dislocated workers, consistent with WIOA and the WIOA Final Rules. The section of the final rule pertaining to services for adults and dislocated workers under WIOA title I can be found at 20 CFR part 680 The sections of the final rule pertaining to individuals served under the Wagner-Peyser Act programs, as revised, can be found at 20 CFR parts 651, 652, 653 and 658.

To clarify existing guidance governing adjudication of any Combined Wage Claim (CWC) as set out in 20 C.F.R. Part 616, and to make a technical assistance tool available to State Workforce Agencies for staff use in addressing CWC issues previously adjudicated by another state in compliance with 20 C.F.R. 616.8 (a).

This Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) Change 4 provides corrected allotment tables for Non-Minority National grantees for February 1 - June 30, 2017. The participant and funding allotments in Change 3 attachments B-1 and B-2 published on 12/30/2016 contained minor errors for two national grantees, the National Caucus and Center on Black Aged, Inc. (NCBA) and the National Urban League (NUL), in two states, Florida and Michigan. The corrected B-1 and B-2 tables are attached. All other information in TEGL 18-15, Change 3 remains the same.

To announce the 2017 UI SIDES Training Seminar, being held April 18-20, 2017, in Kansas City, Missouri.

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

To announce the rate of interest that the U.S. Department of the Treasury (Treasury) will charge on Title XII advances during CY 2017.

To provide guidance for eligibility of program participants for the National Farmworker Jobs Program (NFJP) authorized under Title I Section 167 Migrant and Seasonal Farmworker (MSFW) Programs of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA). This guidance rescinds and replaces Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) NO. 25-04 Participant Eligibility Guidance and TEGL NO. 25-04 Change 1.

To provide information to State Workforce Agencies (SWAs) about the application of sequestration in Fiscal Year (FY) 2017, how the Department of Labor (Department) will apply sequestration to mandatory Unemployment Insurance (UI) programs and on delayed benefit payments from prior fiscal years, and the resulting administrative costs.

To ensure states are aware that: 1) the social security survivors and old age retirement annuities and the Federal civilian pensions annual cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) will increase for calendar year 2017, and 2) COLA information may be found on the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Web site.

The Employment and Training Administration (ETA) announces the release and availability of three reports titled: 1) Green Jobs and Health Care (GJ-HC) Impact Evaluation: Findings from the Implementation Study of Four Training Programs for Unemployed and Disadvantaged Workers; 2) GJ-HC Impact Evaluation: Findings from the Impact Study of Four Training Programs for Unemployed and Disadvantaged Workers; and 3) GJ-HC Impact Evaluation: Special Topic Paper on Standard Error Estimation in Evaluations with No-Shows.

In addition, ETA announces the release of the GJ-HC Impact Evaluation public-use data files, available to researchers, practitioners, and other members of the public, and GJ-HC Impact Evaluation restricted-use data files, available to researchers authorized by ETA, for the purpose of conducting their own analyses with the data related to the evaluation.