To ensure that states are aware that the social security survivors and old age retirement annuities and the Federal civilian pensions annual cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) increased for calendar year (CY) 2024, and to provide the U.S. Office of Personnel Management’s (OPM) COLA information.

To ensure State Workforce Agencies (SWAs) are aware of the Federal military retired pay annual COLA provided by the Department of Defense.

To provide a checklist of all currently active ETA advisories as well as a checklist of all ETA advisories rescinded/cancelled since the previously issued checklists.

To ensure State Workforce Agencies (SWA) are aware that employers seeking to hire foreign workers for temporary employment under a supplemental H-2B visa cap for work certified to commence in FY 2024 must contact an American Job Center (AJC) for assistance in recruiting U.S. workers for their job opportunities.

To notify each State Workforce Agency (SWA) that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) will use an Implementing Agreement (IA) and will no longer use a Questionable Employment Tax Practices (QETP) Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to facilitate a SWA’s receipt of QETP data. Consequently, the IRS will terminate all existing QETP MOUs.

This Training and Employment Notice (TEN) reminds states of the statute of imitations for Federal prosecution of UI fraud and encourages states to submit timely referrals of COVID-19 pandemic era UI fraud cases to the Department of Labor’s (Department) Office of Inspector General (DOL-OIG).

The purpose of this Training and Employment Notice (TEN) is to announce the publication of the Wagner-Peyser Act Staffing final rule, which makes changes to the regulations regarding the Wagner-Peyser Act Employment Service (ES).  Additionally, this TEN provides information to states seeking to implement the revisions provided in the final rule as part of their Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) Unified or Combined State Plan submission for 2026.

To announce the availability of a Program Topic Locator on the UI COP on WorkforceGPS and provide instructions on how to access the Program Topic Locator.

To provide updated procedural guidance to state workforce agencies (SWA) on the WOTC certification process.  This Change 1 and the materials and forms it discusses supersede the guidance outlined in Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) No. 16-20, Work Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC) Procedural Guidance (March 31, 2021). 

To convey the Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 initial funding allotments for WOTC application requirements for State Workforce Agencies (SWA), based on funding appropriated through a continuing resolution through November 17, 2023.