To transmit revised WOTC forms and instructions, which were updated to reflect the amendments and new provisions in the VOW Act and other legislative changes to the WOTC program.

To announce the release and availability of a new Employment and Training Administration (ETA) research report entitled:  Evaluation of the Re-Integration of Ex-Offenders (RExO) Program:  Interim Report.

To provide guidance to grantees, and particularly State Dislocated Worker Units, on the applicability of the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act, 29 U.S.C., 2101-2109, to layoffs that may occur among Federal contractors, including in the defense industry, as a result of the sequestration mandated by the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (BBEDCA), as amended by the Budget Control Act of 2011 (BCA), 2 U.S.C. 901a(7)(A) and (8).

a. To provide preliminary FY 2013 dollar and staff year base resource planning targets for UI operations to be used in planning and developing State Quality Service Plans (SQSP); b. To provide general guidelines for FY 2013 resource planning; and c. To explain how base resources were allocated among states.

To transmit instructions for implementing the revised TAPR in accordance with reporting guidelines required by the enactment of the Trade Adjustment Assistance Extension Act of 2011 (TAAEA) (P.L. 112-40) and the Veterans Opportunity to Work (VOW) to Hire Heroes Act of 2011(P.L. 112-56).  This guidance also updates Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) No. 6-09, Change 1, issued February 7, 2012, by:   

• describing the non-substantive changes that have been approved since its issuance;
• replacing TEGL No. 6-09, Change 1, Attachment A:  2012 Data Preparation and Reporting Handbook, including Appendix:  Trade Activity Participant Report, with TEGL No.6-09, Change 2, Attachment A:  2013 Data Preparation and Reporting Handbook and Attachment B:  Data Preparation and Reporting Handbook Appendix:  Trade Activity Participant Report; and
• making available an updated table of data validation edit checks to correspond with modifications and data element additions to the TAPR, as Attachment C to this TEGL.

To provide additional guidance to states on the requirements for approval of demonstration projects under Section 2102 of the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012 (Act; Pub. L. 112-96).

To transmit the subject computation for State Workforce Agency usage in computing minimum weekly DUA amounts for all major disasters declared during the fourth quarter of Fiscal Year (FY) 2012.

To transmit procedures to be used by all ETA grant recipients for reporting allegations of fraud, program abuse or criminal conduct involving grantees or other entities and subrecipients receiving Federal funds either directly or indirectly from ETA.

To provide State Workforce Agencies or agencies designated by Governors as “Cooperating State Agencies” (CSAs) (also jointly referred to as “states”) with the formula methodology used in developing the FY 2012 Second Distribution of TAA program funds to states, which follows the FY 2012 Initial Allocation of funds, and to describe the process for states to use to request TAA program reserve funds for Training, Employment and Case Management Services, Job Search Allowances, and Relocation Allowances, including the State Administration of these benefits.

To initiate the process, provide supplemental instructions, and define additional requirements for the FY 2013 SQSP.