To inform states of changes made by the Department of Defense (DOD) to the DD Form 214 and 215 (DD-214 and DD-215) series and to provide guidance necessary to properly administer the Unemployment Compensation for Ex-servicemembers (UCX) program.

To announce the release of a new UI Fraud Risk Management page on WorkforceGPS under the UI Community of Practice (CoP) and to notify states that the National Association of State Workforce Agencies’ (NASWA) UI Integrity Center is a key resource available to support states’ UI fraud risk management efforts.  

To provide information to states about FY 2024 UI State Administration base resource allocations, general guidelines for resource planning, above-base funding, and SBRs.

To transmit the subject computation for State Workforce Agency usage in computing minimum weekly DUA amounts for all major disasters declared from July 1 – September 30, 2024 (fourth quarter of Fiscal Year (FY) 2024).
 

To provide procedures to be used by all Employment and Training Administration (ETA) federal assistance recipients and subrecipients for reporting suspected fraud, program abuse, or criminal conduct involving recipients or other entities receiving Federal awards directly from ETA and/or involving subrecipients receiving Federal funds indirectly from ETA.

To provide WIOA Section 166 INA Program grantees with Comprehensive Services Program (CSP) and Supplemental Youth Services Program (SYSP) funding allotments for PY 2024.
 

This guidance updates Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) 10-16, Change 2, published September 15, 2022, and developed jointly by the U.S. Departments of Labor (DOL) and Education (ED) (the Departments). Within ED, the Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education (OCTAE) will update Program Memorandum (PM) 17-2 and the Rehabilitation Services Administration (RSA) will update Technical Assistance Circular (TAC) 17-01 to be consistent with the changes reflected herein. 

To announce the renewal of the Unemployment Insurance (UI) Data Validation (DV) Handbook, Benefits and Tax (Employment and Training (ET) Handbook No. 361) and the Data Validation Operations Guide (ET Handbook No. 411).

To provide program guidance for the development, management, and delivery of workforce and labor market information (WLMI) funded through the Workforce and Labor Market Information Grants to States (WIGS).

To remind states of regulatory obligations and associated promising practices for payment of unemployment compensation and to provide questions and answers on state-administered debit cards.