To announce the availability of UI appeals training for Hearing Officers and other UI staff responsible for conducting, reviewing, and evaluating hearings on unemployment insurance matters.

The purpose of this Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) is to provide information to assist and support those agencies and other grantees that receive funds from the Department to operate qualified job training programs in the implementation of the Priority of Service for Veterans and Eligible Spouses Final Rule. This joint guidance is being issued concurrently by the Employment and Training Administration (ETA) and the Veterans’ Employment and Training Service (VETS). Veterans’ Program Letter 07-09 is the VETS guidance that corresponds to this TEGL.

To describe how the Employment and Training Administration (ETA) interprets the statutory and regulatory requirements of the National Dislocated Worker Grant Program's disaster grants (Disaster Recovery DWGs) as they apply to the unique challenges of the opioid crisis. Under this guidance, eligible applicants can obtain Disaster Recovery DWGs to create disaster-relief employment as well as to provide employment and training activities, including supportive services, to address economic and workforce impacts related to widespread opioid use, addiction, and overdose.

To inform One-Stop Career Centers about their role in the influenza pandemic and the supporting resources and information available.

To transmit the subject computation for State Workforce Agency usage in computing minimum weekly DUA amounts for all major disasters declared during the first quarter of Fiscal Year (FY) 2019.

To advise states of further expansion of the EUC08 program and to provide operating and reporting instructions for implementation and administration.

This Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) corrects the expenditure timeframe to allow state workforce agencies (SWA) to use the Fiscal Year (FY) 2018 funding allocations for Work Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC) activities through December 31, 2019.

To increase awareness of the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 (COBRA) provisions in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 and inform states and local areas about resources available to assist dislocated workers, businesses, and partners in understanding the new law. Most of the language in this notice is identical to TEN 42-08, and is repeated because two important groups of addressees have been added. For those who received the previous notice, all of the new material is highlighted in boldface type. Most of the additions are in Section 5 (Action Requested) and Section 7 (Attachments).

To provide guidance to state workforce agencies related to administration of the UCX program regarding continuous active duty in a reserve status when military reservists have consecutive deployments.

This guidance contains instructions regarding changes in the BAM Paid Claims Accuracy (PCA) and Denied Claims Accuracy (DCA) programs and updates for the State Operations Handbook, ET Handbook No. 395.