This guidance provides information to States and grantees of the U.S. Departments of Labor (DOL) and Education (ED) (collectively "the Departments") on the performance accountability system requirements set forth in section 116 of WIOA. Specifically, this guidance provides information about the guidelines States must use in developing procedures for ensuring the data submitted are valid and reliable.

This guidance communicates the requirements and the process for states to request a waiver of WIOA Title I or the Wagner-Peyser Act, and to provide information regarding available resources for developing waiver requests.

To provide sequestration rules for Fiscal Year (FY) 2019 to State Workforce Agencies (SWAs) that apply to mandatory Unemployment Insurance (UI) programs and information on how the U.S. Department of Labor (Department) will apply those rules. These rules include the application of sequestration on delayed benefit payments for prior FYs and the resulting administrative costs.

To remind state workforce agencies (SWAs) that Federal law requires all states to participate in the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Treasury Offset Program (TOP) to recover delinquent unemployment compensation (UC) debts for benefit overpayments due to fraud, benefit overpayments due to a claimant’s failure to report earnings, and delinquent UC taxes.

To provide INA grantees with Comprehensive Services Program (CSP) and Supplemental Youth Services Program (SYSP) funding allotments for PY 2018 for the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA), Section 166 programs, and to notify grantees of the required revisions to their Standard Form (SF) 424 – Application for Federal Assistance, SF 424A – Budget Information (Non-Construction Programs), and Budget Narrative. This TEGL also provides guidance on high carry-in of funding at the end of PY 2018.

To remind state workforce agencies of the revised requirements in Regulation E for government programs that issue prepaid debit cards as a mechanism for paying non-needs tested benefits and for the financial institutions that provide the prepaid debit cards; and to announce that the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection (Bureau) has extended the deadline for implementation of these requirements.

To announce the availability of DUA training for DUA Coordinators and other staff responsible for accepting and adjudicating DUA claims and hearing DUA appeals.

To provide guidance to WIOA state grantees regarding the content of the WIOA Annual Statewide Performance Report Narrative for titles I and III and the procedures for submission to the Employment and Training Administration (ETA). The report is due annually on December 1, or the first business day thereafter should that date fall on a weekend. The PY 2017 report is due December 3, 2018.

This guidance provides states with revised allotment levels for WIOA Adult and DW FY 2019 funds, which became available to states in October 2018. This Change 1 to Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) 16-17 restores the set-aside for evaluations to the funding available to states in October 2018.

To provide guidance to state workforce agencies related to administration of the UCX program regarding continuous active duty in a reserve status when military reservists have consecutive deployments.