- TEGL No. 18-20 (Issue Date: April 26, 2021)Subject
Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) Financial Reporting Alignment and Clarifications
PurposeThis Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) provides guidance on the alignment of reporting requirements in the Participant Individual Record Layout (PIRL) and the ETA-9130, while further providing information on how to document specific scenarios within the submitted data.
ActiveProgram Year:2020Fiscal Year:2021 - TEGL No. 17-20 (Issue Date: April 15, 2021)Subject
Senior Community Service Employment Program – Updated Guidance on Priority of Service, Durational Limits, and State Plan Submissions
PurposeThis Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) provides guidance to Senior Community Service Employment Program (SCSEP) grantees regarding updates to the priority of service provisions, durational limit waiver categories, and State Plan requirements due to the passage of the Supporting Older Americans Act of 2020, which reauthorized the Older Americans Act (OAA) and included new provisions regarding certain individuals who were formerly incarcerated or under supervision following release from prison or jail.
ActiveProgram Year:2020Fiscal Year:2021 - UIPL No. 16-21 (Issue Date: April 13, 2021)Subject
Identity Verification for Unemployment Insurance (UI) Claims
PurposeTo highlight the importance of identity verification in ensuring the proper payment of unemployment benefits and to provide guidance to states on required administrative procedures when processing claims and determining UI eligibility in cases where an individual's identity (ID) is questionable.
ActiveProgram Year:2020Fiscal Year:2021 - UIPL No. 24-20, Change 2 (Issue Date: April 7, 2021)Subject
American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARPA) - Provisions Affecting the Federal-State Extended Benefits (EB) Program
PurposeThis Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) provides guidance on certain amendments related to the EB program contained in the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, Public Law (Pub. L.) 117-2.
ActiveProgram Year:2020Fiscal Year:2021 - TEGL No. 16-20 (Issue Date: March 31, 2021)Subject
Work Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC) Procedural Guidance
PurposeTo provide updated procedural guidance to state workforce agencies (SWA) on the WOTC certification process. This Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) and the materials and forms it discusses supersede the guidance outlined in the Third Edition of Employment and Training Administration (ETA) Handbook No. 408, published in November 2002, and its August 2009 Addendum.
ActiveProgram Year:2020Fiscal Year:2021 - TEGL No. 15-20 (Issue Date: March 31, 2021)Subject
Reallotment of Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) Title I Formula-Allotted Funds for Dislocated Worker (DW) Activities for Program Year (PY) 2020
PurposeTo provide adjusted funding levels for PY 2020 allotments for the DW program under WIOA Title I Section 132(c) on recapture and reallotment.
ActiveProgram Year:2020Fiscal Year:2021 - TEGL No. 06-20, Change 1 (Issue Date: March 31, 2021)Subject
Change 1 to Training and Employment Guidance Letter No. 06-20, Work Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC) Funding Allotments for Fiscal Year 2021
PurposeThis Change 1 to the Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) 06-20 conveys the remaining balance for WOTC and explains application requirements for State Workforce Agencies (SWA) based on funding appropriated for Fiscal Year (FY) 2021 through September 30, 2022. Additionally, this TEGL announces 12 states selected to receive additional FY 2021 backlog funding and provides instructions to those states on how to proceed. The remainder of TEGL No. 06-20 remains the same.
CanceledProgram Year:2020Fiscal Year:2021 - UIPL No. 18-20, Change 2 (Issue Date: March 26, 2021)Subject
American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARPA) - Amendments to the Emergency Unemployment Relief for State and Local Governmental Entities, Certain Nonprofit Organizations, and Federally-Recognized Indian Tribes
PurposeTo provide states with instructions for implementing the recent statutory changes to the emergency unemployment relief for state and local governmental entities, certain nonprofit organizations, and federally-recognized Indian Tribes provided in ARPA, Public Law (Pub. L.) 117-2, which amends Section 903(i) of the Social Security Act (SSA) (42 U.S.C. § 1103(i)).
ActiveProgram Year:2020Fiscal Year:2021 - UIPL No. 15-20, Change 4 (Issue Date: March 26, 2021)Subject
American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARPA) - Extensions to the Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation (FPUC) Program and Mixed Earners Unemployment Compensation (MEUC) Program
PurposeThis Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) provides guidance about the extension of the FPUC and the MEUC program authorized by Section 9013 of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, Public Law (Pub. L.) 117-2.
ActiveProgram Year:2020Fiscal Year:2021 - UIPL No. 17-20, Change 3 (Issue Date: March 26, 2021)Subject
American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARPA) - Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation (PEUC) Program: Extension, Elimination of Transition Rule, Increase in Total Benefits, and Extension of Coordination Rule.
PurposeThis Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) provides guidance about the changes to the PEUC program authorized by Section 9016 of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARPA), Public Law (Pub. L.) 117-2.
ActiveProgram Year:2020Fiscal Year:2021