To provide instructions for National Farmworker Jobs Program (NFJP) housing grantees for preparing and submitting grant plans for Program Year (PY) 2014, and to convey the grant allocations for the program year.

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.

To respond to questions from state workforce agencies and state workforce liaisons related to the October 2013 Federal government lapse in appropriations, or “shutdown,” and administrative funding for relevant programs pursuant to the Continuing Appropriations Act, 2014 (Act).

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 provide SCSEP grantees with information about the statutory exemption of SCSEP wages for purposes of determining income eligibility for Federal housing programs and/or SNAP.

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

To provide States and outlying areas with WIA Title I Adult, Dislocated Worker and Youth Activities program allotments for PY 2014; final allotments for PY 2014 for the Wagner-Peyser ES Program, as required by section 6(b)(5) of the Wagner-Peyser Act, as amended; and the Workforce Information Grants to States allotments for PY 2014.

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 invite state workforce agencies to submit proposals for a grant to continue or to implement a UI REA program, and to provide guidelines for FY 2014 UI REA grants.

To provide information and procedural guidance to State Workforce Development Agencies, also called State Workforce Agencies (SWA), on the Social Security Administration's (SSA) Ticket Program Manager's (TPM) business process to verify payment status for Supplemental Security Income (SSI) Recipients. Additionally, this Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) provides guidance on reducing the national SSI backlog and redetermining SSI certification requests that were previously denied because the SWA could not verify the SSI payment status for the job applicant listed on the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Form 8850.