To announce the rate of interest that the U.S. Department of the Treasury (Treasury) will charge on Title XII advances during CY 2018.

To provide guidance to States, territories, and outlying areas regarding the two-year modification requirements, submission process, and deadline for submitting the two-year modifications for the WIOA Unified and Combined State Plans for Program Years (PYs) 2018 and 2019. States must submit a WIOA Unified or Combined State Plan two-year modification to the U.S. Departments of Labor (DOL) and Education (ED) (collectively, Departments) by March 15, 2018.

To ensure states are aware of the locality-based salary rates for certain Federal civilian employees.

To provide ETA funding recipients and stakeholders with information about how a temporary suspension of the Federal government impacts the execution of ETA-funded programs and services.

The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) requires the reporting of performance data, in accordance with Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (WIA) performance accountability provisions, for individuals served and exited prior to July 1, 2016, who were not previously reported for Program Year (PY) 2015.

To ensure states are aware of the Schedule of Remuneration for the UCX program that reflects the military pay increase effective January 1, 2018.

To ensure State Workforce Agencies are aware of the Federal military retired pay annual cost of living adjustment (COLA) provided by the Department of Defense.

To revise the due dates specified for the Statewide long-term projections, the Workforce Information Database (WIDb), and the WIGS 2017 Statewide Economic and Annual Report in both the TEGL and Attachment 1. The references to the due dates for these deliverables are corrected as follows:

1. The Statewide long-term projections due date is corrected by replacing "No 10-year Projections are due in 2018" with "10-year Projections are due one week following June 29, 2018" (TEGL, pg. 4);
2. The Workforce Information Database (WIDb) due date is corrected by replacing "January 8, 2018" with "June 30, 2018" (TEGL, pg. 4);
3. The (WIGS) 2017 Statewide Economic and Annual Report due date is corrected by replacing "September 30, 2018" with "October 1, 2018" (TEGL, pg. 5);
4. The Workforce Information Database (WIDb) due date is corrected by replacing "Within 180 days from the release of a new database version" with "June 30, 2018" (Attachment 1, pg. 3);
5. The Statewide long-term industry and occupational projections (10-year projections) due date is corrected by replacing "One week following June 30, 2017" with "One week following June 29, 2018" (Attachment 1, pg. 3); and
6. The Annual and Economic Analysis Report due date is corrected by replacing "September 30, 2018" with "October 1, 2018" (Attachment 1, pg. 4).

To transmit the subject computation for State Workforce Agency usage in computing minimum weekly DUA amounts for all major disasters declared during the second quarter of Fiscal Year (FY) 2018.

To ensure 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 2018, and 2) COLA information may be found on the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Web site.