- TEGL No. 06-23, Change 1 (Issue Date: January 4, 2024)Subject
Change 1 to Training and Employment Guidance Letter No. 06-23, Work Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC) Initial Funding Allotments for Fiscal Year 2024
PurposeThis Change 1 to Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) No. 06-23 conveys additional Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 WOTC funding allotments and application requirements for State Workforce Agencies (SWAs), based on funding appropriated through a continuing resolution (CR) through February 2, 2024. The rest of TEGL No. 06-23 remains the same.
ActiveProgram Year:2023Fiscal Year:2024 - TEGL No. 07-23 (Issue Date: January 3, 2024)Subject
Ongoing Operations of the Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) for Workers Program During Phase-Out Termination
PurposeTo advise and provide clarity to State Workforce Agencies or agencies designated by Governors as “Cooperating State Agencies” (CSAs or “States”) on the ongoing required activities under the TAA Program pending reauthorization.
ActiveProgram Year:2023Fiscal Year:2024 - UIPL No. 05-24 (Issue Date: December 29, 2023)Subject
Application of State Finality Laws Regarding Temporary Unemployment Compensation (UC) Programs under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act
PurposeTo announce the Department of Labor’s (Department’s) interpretation concerning the application of state finality laws to temporary UC programs created under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, as amended.
ActiveProgram Year:2023Fiscal Year:2024 - UIPL No. 06-24 (Issue Date: December 29, 2023)Subject
2024 Pay Adjustments for Annual Salary Rates for General Schedule (GS) Federal Employees in 53 Locality Pay Areas
PurposeTo ensure states are aware of the locality-based salary rates for certain Federal civilian employees.
ActiveProgram Year:2023Fiscal Year:2024 - UIPL No. 04-24 (Issue Date: December 19, 2023)Subject
Minimum Disaster Unemployment Assistance (DUA) Weekly Benefit Amount: January 1 – March 31, 2024
PurposeTo transmit the subject computation for State Workforce Agency usage in computing minimum weekly DUA amounts for all major disasters declared from January 1 – March 31, 2024 (second quarter of Fiscal Year (FY) 2024).
ActiveProgram Year:2023Fiscal Year:2024 - TEN No. 15-23 (Issue Date: December 19, 2023)Subject
The Federal Schedule of Remuneration for use in determining benefits eligibility under the Unemployment Compensation for Ex-servicemembers (UCX) program.
PurposeTo ensure states are aware of the Schedule of Remuneration for the UCX program that reflects the military pay increase effective January 1, 2024.
ActiveProgram Year:2023Fiscal Year:2024 - UIPL No. 02-24 (Issue Date: December 13, 2023)Subject
Federal Military Pensions Cost-of-Living Adjustments (COLAs)
PurposeTo ensure State Workforce Agencies (SWAs) are aware of the Federal military retired pay annual COLA provided by the Department of Defense.
ActiveProgram Year:2023Fiscal Year:2024 - UIPL No. 03-24 (Issue Date: December 13, 2023)Subject
Social Security Annuities and Federal Civilian Pensions
PurposeTo ensure that states are aware that the social security survivors and old age retirement annuities and the Federal civilian pensions annual cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) increased for calendar year (CY) 2024, and to provide the U.S. Office of Personnel Management’s (OPM) COLA information.
ActiveProgram Year:2023Fiscal Year:2024 - TEN No. 14-23 (Issue Date: December 11, 2023)Subject
Employment and Training Administration (ETA) Advisory Checklists Update
PurposeTo provide a checklist of all currently active ETA advisories as well as a checklist of all ETA advisories rescinded/cancelled since the previously issued checklists.
ActiveProgram Year:2023Fiscal Year:2024 - TEN No. 13-23 (Issue Date: December 5, 2023)Subject
American Job Center Role in Connecting U.S. Job Seekers to Job Opportunities Available with Employers Seeking to Employ H-2B Nonimmigrant Foreign Workers Certified for Work Starting in Fiscal Year (FY) 2024
PurposeTo ensure State Workforce Agencies (SWA) are aware that employers seeking to hire foreign workers for temporary employment under a supplemental H-2B visa cap for work certified to commence in FY 2024 must contact an American Job Center (AJC) for assistance in recruiting U.S. workers for their job opportunities.
ActiveProgram Year:2023Fiscal Year:2024