To provide guidance and planning information to states, local workforce areas, and other recipients of WIOA Title I youth formula funds on the activities associated with the implementation of WIOA.

WIOA became law on July 22, 2014 and supersedes Titles I and II of the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (WIA), and amends the Wagner-Peyser Act and the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. The Departments of Labor and Education published a set of regulations for implementing WIOA. These WIOA Final Rules were made public on July 1, 2016, and the rules covering the Title I youth formula program became effective on October 18, 2016.

To transmit the Employment and Training Administration’s (ETA) Program Year (PY) 2016 designation of:

• Significant MSFW States;
• Significant MSFW One-stop centers; and
• Significant Multilingual MSFW One-stop centers.

This guidance also transmits updated Minimum Service Level Indicators of Wagner-Peyser Employment Service (ES) services to MSFWs for the Significant MSFW States, and transmits guidance on State Workforce Agencies (SWA) responsibilities in serving MSFWs.

The U.S. Department of Labor (Department) announced the publication of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) final regulations in the Federal Register, on Friday, August 19, 2016. These regulations became effective October, 18, 2016 and included updates to the Wagner-Peyser regulations. The updated guidance also provides clarification on the responsibilities of SWAs for the designated:

• Significant MSFW States;
• Significant MSFW One-stop centers; and
• Significant MSFW Multilingual One-stop centers

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.