- TEGL No. 08-19 (Issue Date: January 2, 2020)Subject
Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) Title I Training Provider Eligibility and State List of Eligible Training Providers (ETPs) and Programs
PurposeThe purpose of this guidance is to identify actions that states can take to meet requirements for training providers, program eligibility, and the state ETP list in WIOA Section 122 and 20 CFR part 680. WIOA and its regulations established the allowable types of training, including both work-based and classroom instruction, with the goal of ensuring provider performance, job-driven training, informed consumer choice, continuous improvement, and cost-effective investment of public funds. This guidance replaces Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) 41-14, Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA or Opportunity Act) Title I Training Provider Eligibility Transition, and the subsequent TEGL 41-14, Change 1.
ActiveProgram Year:2019Fiscal Year:2020 - TEN No. 10-19, Change 1 (Issue Date: December 31, 2019)Subject
Extension of the Health Coverage Tax Credit (HCTC) Program for Eligible Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) Recipients and Eligible Alternative TAA and Reemployment TAA (ATAA/RTAA) Recipients or Eligible Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) Recipients
PurposeTo provide information and expand awareness of the extension of the HCTC Program, to advise States in assisting job seekers and workers, and to cancel, effective immediately, Training and Employment Notice (TEN) No. 10-19.
ActiveProgram Year:2019Fiscal Year:2020 - TEGL No. 07-19 (Issue Date: December 31, 2019)Subject
Senior Community Service Employment Program Four-Year State Plans
PurposeThe purpose of this Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) is to provide Senior Community Service Employment Program (SCSEP) states, territories, and outlying areas with guidance for submission of four-year Stand-Alone State Plans, including the submission process and deadline for submission. Note that this guidance pertains only to states that are submitting a SCSEP Stand-Alone State Plan for Program Years (PY) 2020-2023. States that are including SCSEP as part of a Combined State Plan for 2020-2023 must refer to ETA guidance for submission of Unified and Combined State Plans under the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) for Program Years (PYs) 2020-2023 for instructions.
CanceledProgram Year:2019Fiscal Year:2020 - UIPL No. 06-20 (Issue Date: December 23, 2019)Subject
Social Security Annuities and Federal Civilian Pensions
PurposeTo ensure that states are aware that: 1) the social security survivors and old age retirement annuities and the Federal civilian pensions annual cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) will increase for calendar year 2020 and 2) COLA information is located on the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) website.
ActiveProgram Year:2019Fiscal Year:2020 - TEN No. 11-19 (Issue Date: December 20, 2019)Subject
Federal Schedule of Remuneration for Use in Determining Benefit 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, 2020.
ActiveProgram Year:2019Fiscal Year:2020 - UIPL No. 05-20 (Issue Date: December 20, 2019)Subject
Federal Military Pensions Cost of Living (COLA) adjustments
PurposeTo ensure State Workforce Agencies (SWA) are aware of the Federal military retired pay annual COLA provided by the Department of Defense.
ActiveProgram Year:2019Fiscal Year:2020 - TEN No. 10-19 (Issue Date: December 16, 2019)Subject
Expiration of the Health Coverage Tax Credit (HCTC) Program for Eligible Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) Recipients and Eligible Alternative TAA and Reemployment TAA (ATAA/RTAA) Recipients or Eligible Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) Recipients
PurposeTo provide information and expand awareness of the expiration of the HCTC Program on December 31, 2019 and to advise States in assisting job seekers and workers.
CanceledProgram Year:2019Fiscal Year:2020 - UIPL No. 04-20 (Issue Date: December 16, 2019)Subject
Treasury Offset Program (TOP) Revised and Clarified Requirements for Referring Unemployment Compensation (UC) Debts for Recovery through Federal Tax Refund Offset
PurposeThis Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) is to inform State Workforce Agencies (SWAs) that they: (1) must exclude Tax Identification Numbers (TINs), which include Social Security Numbers (SSNs) and Employer Identification Numbers (EINs), from the Debt Account Identification (ID) field of the record layout for UC debts referred to TOP for offset recovery; (2) must follow the provisions of the Social Security Number Fraud Prevention Act of 2017 (Public Law (P.L.) 115-59) that restricts the inclusion of TINs on documents Federal departments and agencies send by mail; and (3) must discontinue aggregating UC debts referred to TOP for offset recovery.
ActiveProgram Year:2019Fiscal Year:2020 - UIPL No. 03-20 (Issue Date: December 12, 2019)Subject
Minimum Disaster Unemployment Assistance (DUA) Weekly Benefit Amount: January 1 - March 31, 2020
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, 2020, (second quarter of Fiscal Year (FY) 2020).
ActiveProgram Year:2019Fiscal Year:2020 - TEN No. 09-19 (Issue Date: November 21, 2019)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:2019Fiscal Year:2020