To inform the State Workforce Agencies (SWAs) of the retroactive legislative reauthorization of the Work Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC) for non-veteran target groups and the Empowerment Zones that expired on December 31, 2011, and continuation of the WOTC for veteran groups, including the VOW to Hire Heroes Act of 2011 (VOW Act) expanded veteran groups. To provide guidance to SWAs, participating agencies and other Federal and State partners for processing WOTC certification applications.

To alert State Workforce Agencies and Local Workforce Investment Board (LWIB) Executive Directors about a study being conducted on services to youth with disabilities in the public workforce system, and to encourage voluntary responses to the Survey of Workforce Investment Act Services Provided to Youth with Disabilities (Youth with Disabilities Survey). A combined effort of the Department of Labor’s (Department) Employment and Training Administration (ETA) and Office of Disability Employment Policy, the primary purpose of the Youth with Disabilities Survey is to get an analytical overview of services provided by local workforce agencies to this population. The responses to the survey will be analyzed and used to gain a better understanding of how young people with disabilities are being served within the workforce system and to identify mechanisms for enhancing these efforts.

To announce the release and availability of ETA’s First Step:  A Youth Practitioner’s Resource Guide to Supportive Services.

To reissue the State UI BAM Operations Guide (ET Operations Guide 400).

To respond to questions from states about the impact of sequestration on Emergency Unemployment Compensation (EUC) for fiscal year (FY) 2013.

This notice is intended to alert the workforce investment system of a national partnership among the Departments of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Treasury and Labor (DOL) to expand awareness of mortgage relief for UI claimants and unemployed workers, and to lay out the actions required to implement the partnership.

The purpose of this Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) is to transmit guidelines to State Workforce Agencies (SWAs) on the preparation and submission of the AOP, and to designate the significant MSFW states for Program Year (PY) 2013.

To advise states that the deadline to apply for SEA grant money under the provisions of the Act has been extended.

This Training and Employment Notice (TEN) announces the release and availability of new features and enhancement to the Employment and Training Administration’s online electronic tools.

To provide adjusted funding levels for Program Year (PY) 2012 allotments for the Dislocated Worker program under WIA Title I Section 132(c) on recapture and reallotment.