To provide information about the 2020 UI SIDES Seminar sponsored by the National Association of State Workforce Agencies (NASWA) on March 3-5, 2020, in Kansas City, Missouri.

The purpose of this Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) is to provide information on:

•Options for states to have in place approved Workforce Investment Act and Wagner-Peyser Act (WIA/W-P) State Plans and waivers for Program Year (PY) 2011.
•When State Plan modifications and waiver requests are required.
•Potential future revisions to Stand-Alone and Unified Strategic State Planning Guidances.

To provide guidelines for the FY 2020 UI RESEA grants and to invite State Workforce Agencies to submit applications for funding.

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) 2011

To provide guidelines for the FY 2020 UI RESEA grants and to invite StateWorkforce Agencies to submit applications for funding.

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 not increase for calendar year 2011, and 2) COLA information may be found on the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Web site

To announce the rate of interest that the U.S. Department of the Treasury (Treasury) will charge on Title XII advances during CY 2020.

To announce the release and availability of the ETA National Agricultural Workers Survey Public Access Data for Fiscal Years 1989-2009

To provide an update on technical assistance to states, territories, and outlying areas related to the requirements for submitting PYs 2020-2023 Unified and Combined State Plans under sections 102 and 103 of WIOA. The PYs 2020-2023 Unified and Combined State Plans will cover the four-year period from July 1, 2020, through June 30, 2024.

Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) No. 16-10 (issued December 15, 2010) provided guidance to the State Workforce Agencies or agencies designated by Governors as “Cooperating State Agencies” (CSAs) (also jointly referred to as “states”) for phasing out the amendments to the Trade Act of 1974 enacted by the Trade and Globalization Adjustment Assistance Act of 2009 (TGAAA or the 2009 Amendments). This Change 1 updates that guidance by explaining that the Omnibus Trade Act of 2010 (Omnibus Trade Act), enacted subsequent to TEGL No. 16-10 on December 29, 2010, provided a six-week statutory extension for the application of the 2009 Amendments.