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).
 

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 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.
 

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 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 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.

To provide SCSEP state, territory, and national grantees with PY 2024 SCSEP allotments and the application instructions for PY 2024 grant submissions. This Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) provides current SCSEP national grantees with allotments and application instructions for the first four months of PY 2024. The TEGL provides only partial-year funding for national grantees because PY 2024 is a competition year, and these funds will cover the transition period leading up to the competition effective date. Additionally, the TEGL provides information on the transition to grants that will be awarded under the funding opportunity announcement (FOA) Senior Community Service Employment Program (SCSEP)National Grants Competition for Program Year 2024 (FOA-ETA-24-11).

This Change 2 to Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) No. 06-23 conveys the remaining balance for Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 WOTC funding allotments and explains application requirements for State Workforce Agencies (SWAs) based on appropriated funding.  Additionally, this Change 2 TEGL announces 13 states selected to receive additional FY 2024 backlog award funding and provides instructions to those states on how to proceed.  The rest of TEGL No. 06-23 remains the same.