To provide guidance to the workforce system on delivering services under the Adult and Dislocated Worker programs under WIOA Title I, and individuals served by the ES program, as amended by WIOA Title III, under the WIOA Final Rule.

WIOA, signed into law on July 22, 2014, supersedes titles I and II of the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (WIA) and amends the Wagner-Peyser Act of 1933 and the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. In general, WIOA took effect on July 1, 2015, the first full program year after enactment, unless otherwise noted. On August 19, 2016, the Departments of Labor (DOL) and Education published the WIOA Final Rules in the Federal Register. The DOL-only rule became fully effective on October 18, 2016, 60 days after it was published on the Federal Register.

In order to continue implementation of WIOA prior to publication of the final rule, DOL issued a Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) 3-15, on July 1, 2015, which provided guidance to the public workforce system on delivering services to adults and dislocated workers under WIOA. This TEGL rescinds TEGL 3-15, and provides updated guidance to the public workforce system on service delivery to adults and dislocated workers, consistent with WIOA and the WIOA Final Rules. The section of the final rule pertaining to services for adults and dislocated workers under WIOA title I can be found at 20 CFR part 680 The sections of the final rule pertaining to individuals served under the Wagner-Peyser Act programs, as revised, can be found at 20 CFR parts 651, 652, 653 and 658.

To provide information on the process of setting performance criteria for key UI performance measures.

To revise the status of Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) 29-05 Memorandum of Understanding Regarding Unemployment Insurance Criminal Investigations Between the U.S. Department of Labor's Office of Inspector General and the Employment and Training Administration.

To provide guidance and planning information to states, local workforce areas, and other recipients of WIOA Title I youth formula funds on the activities associated with the implementation of WIOA.

WIOA became law on July 22, 2014 and supersedes Titles I and II of the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (WIA), and amends the Wagner-Peyser Act and the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. The Departments of Labor and Education published a set of regulations for implementing WIOA. These WIOA Final Rules were made public on July 1, 2016, and the rules covering the Title I youth formula program became effective on October 18, 2016.

To transmit changes to the instructions for the JTPA Summary Program Report, ETA 9047.

To bring attention to the revised Federal poverty guidelines for administrators of the SCSEP.

This guidance provides states with revised allotment levels for WIOA Adult and Dislocated Worker FY 2017 funds, which became available to states in October 2016. Change 1 to TEGL 17-15 indicated a 0.496 percent reduction to funding available to states on October 2016. Change 2 amends this to a 0.1901 percent reduction as enacted in the short-term Further Continuing Appropriations Act for FY 2017, providing all fifty seven state and outlying area grantees with additional funding.

To disseminate copies of the National Association of State Units on Aging s (NASUA) newest publication, Assessing Workforce Development Systems: Benchmarks for Mature and Older Workers.

To provide INA grantees with Planning Estimates for the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA), Section 166, Indian and Native American (INA) Program, Comprehensive Services (CS) and Supplemental Youth Services (SYS) for PY 2017.

To transmit the subject computation for State Workforce Agency usage in computing minimum weekly DUA amounts for all major disasters declared during the third quarter of Fiscal Year (FY) 2017.