To transmit the Employment and Training Administration’s (ETA) Program Year (PY) 2016 designation of:

• Significant MSFW States;
• Significant MSFW One-stop centers; and
• Significant Multilingual MSFW One-stop centers.

This guidance also transmits updated Minimum Service Level Indicators of Wagner-Peyser Employment Service (ES) services to MSFWs for the Significant MSFW States, and transmits guidance on State Workforce Agencies (SWA) responsibilities in serving MSFWs.

The U.S. Department of Labor (Department) announced the publication of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) final regulations in the Federal Register, on Friday, August 19, 2016. These regulations became effective October, 18, 2016 and included updates to the Wagner-Peyser regulations. The updated guidance also provides clarification on the responsibilities of SWAs for the designated:

• Significant MSFW States;
• Significant MSFW One-stop centers; and
• Significant MSFW Multilingual One-stop centers

To clarify existing guidance governing adjudication of any Combined Wage Claim (CWC) as set out in 20 C.F.R. Part 616, and to make a technical assistance tool available to State Workforce Agencies for staff use in addressing CWC issues previously adjudicated by another state in compliance with 20 C.F.R. 616.8 (a).

This Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) Change 4 provides corrected allotment tables for Non-Minority National grantees for February 1 - June 30, 2017. The participant and funding allotments in Change 3 attachments B-1 and B-2 published on 12/30/2016 contained minor errors for two national grantees, the National Caucus and Center on Black Aged, Inc. (NCBA) and the National Urban League (NUL), in two states, Florida and Michigan. The corrected B-1 and B-2 tables are attached. All other information in TEGL 18-15, Change 3 remains the same.

To announce the 2017 UI SIDES Training Seminar, being held April 18-20, 2017, in Kansas City, Missouri.

To announce the release and availability of the Significant Provisions of State Unemployment Insurance Laws Effective January 2017.

To announce the rate of interest that the U.S. Department of the Treasury (Treasury) will charge on Title XII advances during CY 2017.

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 2017, and 2) COLA information may be found on the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Web site.

To provide guidance for eligibility of program participants for the National Farmworker Jobs Program (NFJP) authorized under Title I Section 167 Migrant and Seasonal Farmworker (MSFW) Programs of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA). This guidance rescinds and replaces Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) NO. 25-04 Participant Eligibility Guidance and TEGL NO. 25-04 Change 1.

To provide information to State Workforce Agencies (SWAs) about the application of sequestration in Fiscal Year (FY) 2017, how the Department of Labor (Department) will apply sequestration to mandatory Unemployment Insurance (UI) programs and on delayed benefit payments from prior fiscal years, and the resulting administrative costs.

This Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) provides guidance on the operating costs of the one-stop delivery system, which are comprised of infrastructure costs and additional costs (i.e., career services, shared operating costs, and shared services) in accordance with the requirements set forth in the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) and its implementing regulations.