To provide State Workforce Agencies (SWAs) guidelines and key dates for the completion of the 2017 UI BAM paid and denied claims sample cases and the publication of 2017 BAM data.

To provide guidance for the funding and management of FY 2017 annual grant allocations in order to perform FLC program activities.

To reissue and update guidance provided in General Administration Letter (GAL) No. 4-88, Unemployment Insurance (UI) Internal Security (IS) Policy, for use by the states in carrying out their responsibilities related to IS for UI operations.

To provide adjusted funding levels for PY 2016 allotments for the Dislocated Worker program under WIOA Title I Section 132(c) on recapture and reallotment.

To transmit the subject computation for State Workforce Agency usage in computing minimum weekly DUA amounts for all major disasters declared during the third quarter of Fiscal Year (FY) 2017.

To provide INA grantees with Planning Estimates for the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA), Section 166, Indian and Native American (INA) Program, Comprehensive Services (CS) and Supplemental Youth Services (SYS) for PY 2017.

This guidance provides states with revised allotment levels for WIOA Adult and Dislocated Worker FY 2017 funds, which became available to states in October 2016. Change 1 to TEGL 17-15 indicated a 0.496 percent reduction to funding available to states on October 2016. Change 2 amends this to a 0.1901 percent reduction as enacted in the short-term Further Continuing Appropriations Act for FY 2017, providing all fifty seven state and outlying area grantees with additional funding.

To bring attention to the revised Federal poverty guidelines for administrators of the SCSEP.

To revise the status of Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) 29-05 Memorandum of Understanding Regarding Unemployment Insurance Criminal Investigations Between the U.S. Department of Labor's Office of Inspector General and the Employment and Training Administration.

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.