Reports

We recommend the Assistant Secretary for Employment and Training: Provide dedicated technical assistance to the states of Florida, New York, Nevada, and Louisiana to assist them in attaining planned goals. If no specific plan of action is provided or is not being met by grantees, ETA should recoup any DWG funding where the states cannot demonstrate their ability to achieve their planned goals by the end of the grant period.

We recommend the Assistant Secretary for Employment and Training: Continue to closely monitor the remaining COVID-19 DWG awards to ensure attainment of performance goals and objectives and provide technical assistance as needed throughout the grant lifecycle. To the extent permitted by law, any of the remaining funds (determined as not needed) should be returned to the Department of Treasury or recouped as soon as practicable so that these funds would become available for other allowable purposes.

We recommend the Assistant Secretary for Employment and Training: Amend TEGL No. 12-19 to include timeline provisions for when disaster relief grantees should begin providing relief to those impacted by a disaster.

We recommend the Assistant Secretary for Employment and Training: Amend TEGL No. 12-19 to include technical assistance provisions for grantees that fail to meet the 60-day requirement for submitting full applications.