To convey the Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 initial funding allotments for WOTC application requirements for State Workforce Agencies (SWA), based on funding appropriated through a continuing resolution through December 20, 2024.  
 

To announce the availability of up to $925,200 for National Farmworker Jobs Program (NFJP) Youth Grants.
 

To provide an updated version of the Department of Labor's Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) Section 188 Disability Reference Guide to American Job Center (AJC) programs and other partners. The guide provides promising practices that correlate with specific nondiscrimination and equal opportunity requirements in Section 188 of WIOA and its implementing regulations.

To advise states that the deadline for accepting DUA applications has changed from 30 days to 60 days, for all disasters declared after March 23, 2024.

To publish FY 2024 state-level RESEA outcome payment performance targets for the reemployment and reduced UI duration of RESEA participants and to provide states with a midyear analysis of their performance levels compared against these targets.

To provide states with instructions for requesting continued workload-based administrative funding for CARES Act benefit programs. The programs covered under this Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) include Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation (PEUC), Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA), Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation (FPUC), and Mixed Earners Unemployment Compensation (MEUC).

To inform states of the discontinuation of the CWC 02-12 application in UI-ICON and provide an alternative method for paying states to communicate to the transferring state(s) an employer’s failure to timely or adequately respond to State Workforce Agencies’ (SWA) requests for information relating to a CWC.

To inform Employment and Training Administration (ETA) federal financial assistance recipients of an update to Part 200, Subpart F of title 2 of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) which allows for an extension of the deadline to submit the Single Audit report in instances where it causes undue burden on the auditee(s).

To announce the IDH EDM webinar, which is scheduled to occur on Wednesday, October 16, 2024, at 3:00pm (Eastern Time).
 

To provide guidance to Employment and Training Administration (ETA) grant recipients and subrecipients on the implementation of OMB’s Guidance for Federal Financial Assistance, which goes into effect on October 1, 2024.  The final guidance revises several parts of 2 CFR subtitle A, “OMB Guidance for Federal Financial Assistance” (formerly “OMB Guidance for Grants and Agreements”).  This includes revisions to 2 CFR part 200, Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements for Federal Awards “Uniform Guidance.”