TEGL-ETA-PY26-MH.pdf

EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING ADMINISTRATION

ADVISORY SYSTEM

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Washington, D.C. 20210

CLASSIFICATION

WIOA-NFJP

CORRESPONDENCE SYMBOL

OWI

DATE

May 21, 2026

RESCISSONS

None

EXPIRATION DATE

Continuing

ADVISORY:

TO:

TRAINING AND EMPLOYMENT GUIDANCE LETTER NO. 12-25

NATIONAL FARMWORKER JOBS PROGRAM GRANTEES

FROM: HENRY MACK, ED.D.

Assistant Secretary

SUBJECT: Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act Title I Program Year 2026 Funds for the National Farmworker Jobs Program

1. Purpose. To provide instructions to National Farmworker Jobs Program (NFJP) Career

Services and Training grantees and Housing Services grantees for the submission of required documents for Program Year (PY) 2026 allotments and performance negotiations.

Additionally, Attachment V of this guidance includes application instructions for grantees that wish to apply for additional PY 2026 NFJP Youth Services Grants.

2. Action Requested. Grantees must follow the requirements in this guidance to obtain the federal funds for their NFJP program activities.

To receive PY 2026 NFJP allotments, grantees must submit the required documents through

Grants.gov within 30 days of the publication of this Training and Employment Guidance

Letter (TEGL). Grantees that do not submit complete documentation by the deadline risk delaying the timely allotment of funds.

If a grantee wishes to amend their four-year program plan or negotiate their performance targets, grantees should email their assigned Federal Project Officer (FPO) and copy

NFJP@dol.gov within 10 days of the publication of this TEGL. See Attachment VIII

Modification Process.

Additionally, grantees who are eligible to apply for a PY 2026 NFJP Youth Services grant must submit the required documents through Grants.gov within 30 days of the publication of this TEGL to be considered for this additional funding opportunity. Please see application requirements in Attachment V of this guidance.

3. Summary and Background.

a. Summary – The Employment and Training Administration (ETA) is issuing this guidance to explain the requirements and procedure to receive PY 2026 NFJP allotments and to apply for an optional PY 2026 NFJP Youth Services Grant. ETA https://grants.gov/ mailto:NFJP@dol.gov https://grants.gov/ will issue all NFJP awards as soon as possible following the receipt of applications so that funds are available to support continued operations of program activities.

b. Background – Through the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026 (from this point forward, referred to as “the Act”), Congress provided $90,134,000 for Career

Services and Training grants (of which $89,405,000 was allotted after $729,000 was set aside), $6,591,000 for Housing Services grants (of which $6,539,000 was allotted after $52,000 was set aside and of which not less than 70 percent shall be for permanent housing), and $671,000 for discretionary purposes. The Act allows the

Secretary of Labor (Secretary) to set aside up to 0.5 percent of each discretionary appropriation for activities related to program integrity and up to 0.75 percent of most operating funds for evaluations. Additionally, section 102 allows for up to 1 percent of discretionary funds in the Act to be transferred between programs, projects, or activities.

In distributing funds for Career Services and Training grants, the Department will issue awards based on the results of the 2024 grant competition and ETA calculates allotments through an administrative formula. The formula’s original methodology is described in a notice published in the Federal Register, 64 FR 27390, May 19, 1999, subsequently updated in the Federal Register notice, 86 FR 32063 on June 16, 2021.

For the Career Services and Training grants, each state service area will receive an amount equal to the percentage of their PY 2025 total amount of federal funds, as applied to the PY 2026 funds available. For additional information, refer to the

Federal Register notice, 89 FR 106593. For the Housing Services grants, the

Department will issue awards based on the results of the 2024 grant competition and each grantee will receive an amount equal to the percentage of their PY 2025 total amount of federal funds, as applied to the PY 2026 funds available.

For the PY 2026 NFJP Youth Services grants, WIOA section 127 requires that when the amount appropriated for WIOA Youth exceeds $925,000,000, the Secretary shall reserve four percent of the excess amount to provide youth workforce investment activities under the NFJP. The PY 2026 WIOA Youth appropriation was

$948,130,000. Using the calculation for the set-aside designated in WIOA, $925,200 is available for PY 2026 NFJP Youth Services grants.

4. Application Requirements for PY 2026 NFJP Allotments.

a. Submit Separate Applications for Career Services and Training Grants and Housing

Grants

ETA encourages application submission as soon as possible, and applications must be received within 30 days of the publication of this TEGL. Grantees must submit a separate application package for each grant type under the associated funding opportunity numbers in Grants.gov, which are referenced in the table below.

Grantees should also use the naming convention for each application submission according to the table below. Note that if you are submitting documents for a Career https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/1999/05/19/99-12554/job-training-partnership-act-migrant-and-seasonal-farmworker-programs-final-allocation-formula https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2021/06/16/2021-12604/employment-and-training-administration-eta-program-year-py-2021-workforce-innovation-and-opportunity https://www.federalregister.gov/d/2024-31019

Services and Training grant, identify the application type as Career Services and

Training, and if you are submitting documents for a Housing Services grant, identify the application type as Migrant Housing. The naming protocol identifies the application package type and includes the name of the applicant organization and the state service area. Grantees will receive a separate grant number for each NFJP award.

Application Type Submit Under this

Funding Opportunity

Number in Grants.gov

Use this Application Naming

Convention

Career Services and Training TEGL-ETA-PY26-AC ABC Applicant - State - Career

Services and Training

Housing Services TEGL-ETA-PY26-MH ABC Applicant - State –

Housing

b. Required Documents for PY 2026 NFJP Allotments for Career Services and Training

Grants and Housing Services Grants

To receive PY 2026 allotments, NFJP grantees must submit via Grants.gov the documents listed below in subsections i-v. See Attachment I for information on

Grants.gov. Submittal of these document packages does not constitute automatic approval. Grantees may be asked, with the assistance of their assigned FPO, to immediately revise and resubmit documentation prior to the allotment award.

Alternatively, the Grant Officer may approve the award allotment with Special

Conditions of Award, requiring the grantee to submit revised documents within 30 calendar days of the award date. If a grantee fails to submit documents by the deadline, they risk delaying the timely allotment of funds.

In response to this guidance, the following documents are required for each Career

Services and Training application and Housing Services application:

i. SF-424, Application for Federal Assistance. An electronically submitted

SF-424 through Grants.gov constitutes an official signed document. The SF-

424 must identify the legal name of the grantee organization, along with the organization's address, its Unique Entity Identification number and its

Employer Identification Number (EIN), all of which must match the same information listed in the organization’s current registration with the System for

Award Management (SAM), found at https://www.sam.gov/. Please review the

SF-424 instructions document included on Grants.gov to ensure the correct completion of the SF-424. The total funding amount entered under the

Estimated Funding section (item #18) must match the allotment amount in the allotment tables. The state and county(ies) service area must be noted under the

Areas Affected by Project section (item #14).

ii. SF-424A, Budget Information – Non-Construction Programs Form. Please review the SF-424A instructions document included on Grants.gov to ensure https://grants.gov/ https://www.grants.gov/ https://www.sam.gov/ https://www.grants.gov/ the correct completion of the SF-424A. The total funding amount entered on the SF-424A must match the allotment amount. See Attachment III for Career

Services and Training Grant Awards and Attachment IV for the Housing

Services Grant Awards.

iii. Budget Narrative. The Budget Narrative must follow the detailed instructions provided in Attachment II. Each line item/category amount on the Budget

Narrative must also match the line item/category amount totals listed on the

SF-424A.

iv. Negotiated Indirect Cost Rate Agreement (NICRA) or Cost Allocation Plan.

Grantees that use a NICRA or Cost Allocation Plan (CAP) must submit a current copy of the NICRA or CAP as part of this application. If a new NICRA has been requested but not finalized, the grantee must include a copy of the request. Please include the letter showing the date it was submitted. Note: If a grantee includes indirect charges on line 6.j of the SF-424A, the grantee must submit a NICRA or CAP unless the grantee elects to charge a de minimis rate.

If a grantee elects not to charge indirect costs, there is no need to include a

NICRA or CAP.

v. 2024-2027 Program Plan. Grantees must submit their 2024-2027 program plan and attach a letter that includes the name of your organization, state service area, and confirms that your organization has no modifications for its program plan. If a grantee would like to request modifications to its program plan, please see Attachment VIII Modification Process.

As grantees consider any need for program plan modifications, please note the provisions of Executive Orders, including but not limited to, 14151, 14168, 14173, and 14190, as well as the U.S. Department of Justice’s July 29, 2025, non-regulatory “Guidance for Recipients of Federal Funding Regarding

Unlawful Discrimination.” Grantees and subgrantees that have implemented diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) activities, or any initiatives that discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin may risk violating federal civil rights laws such as Title VI or Title VII of the Civil

Rights Act of 1964 (42 U.S.C. § 2000d et seq. or 42 U.S.C. § 2000e et seq.), Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (20 U.S.C. § 1681 et seq.), section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act (29 U.S.C. § 794), the Age

Discrimination Act of 1975 (42 U.S.C. 6101 et seq.), Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. § 12131 et seq.), and similar federal laws.

5. Inquiries. All NFJP grantees should submit inquiries on these grant applications instructions to NFJP.OGM@dol.gov. Grantees can direct other questions to their Federal Project Officer and copy NFJP@dol.gov.

mailto:NFJP.OGM@dol.gov

6. References.

• Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026, Public Law 119-75, enacted February 3, 2026;

• 20 CFR Part 685, WIOA Final Rule, effective October 18, 2016;

• Training and Employment Notice (TEN) 16-22: The Employment and Training

Administration is Implementing GrantSolutions for Grant Award Processing and the

Payment Management System for Financial Reporting, issued January 18, 2023 (TEN

16-22 | U.S. Department of Labor);

• Section 167 of WIOA (Pub. L. 113-128), Title I, enacted July 22, 2014;

• Federal Register Notice - Job Training Partnership Act: Migrant and Seasonal

Farmworker Programs, Final Allocation Formula, 64 FR 27390, May 19, 1999;

• Federal Register Notice - Employment and Training Administration (ETA) Program

Year (PY) 2021; Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) Section 167;

National Farmworker Jobs Program (NFJP) Grantee Allotments; 86 FR 32063, June

16, 2021;

• Federal Register Notice- Employment and Training Administration Program Year

2024 Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act Section 167, National Farmworker

Jobs Program Final State Allotments, 89 FR 106593, December 30, 2024; and

• Federal Register Notice - Employment and Training Administration Program Year

2026 Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act Section 167, National Farmworker

Jobs Program (NFJP) State Allotments, May 8, 2026

7. Attachments.

• Attachment I: Grants.gov Submission Instructions

• Attachment II: Applicable Funding Restrictions and Budget Narrative Instructions

• Attachment III: PY 2026 Career Services and Training Grant Awards

• Attachment IV: PY 2026 Housing Services Grant Awards

• Attachment V: PY 2026 Youth Services Grant Application Instructions

• Attachment VI: PY 2026 Performance Requirements

• Attachment VII: Risk Review Process

• Attachment VIII: Modification Process https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-20/chapter-V/part-685/subpart-D/section-685.430 https://www.dol.gov/agencies/eta/advisories/ten-16-22 https://www.dol.gov/agencies/eta/advisories/ten-16-22 https://www.dol.gov/agencies/eta/advisories/ten-16-22 https://www.dol.gov/agencies/eta/advisories/ten-16-22 https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-113publ128/pdf/PLAW-113publ128.pdf https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/1999/05/19/99-12554/job-training-partnership-act-migrant-and-seasonal-farmworker-programs-final-allocation-formula https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2021/06/16/2021-12604/employment-and-training-administration-eta-program-year-py-2021-workforce-innovation-and-opportunity https://www.federalregister.gov/d/2024-31019 https://www.federalregister.gov/d/2024-31019 https://www.federalregister.gov/d/2024-31019 https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/05/08/2026-09142/employment-and-training-administration-program-year-2026-workforce-innovation-and-opportunity-act?utm_campaign=subscription+mailing+list&utm_medium=email&utm_source=federalregister.gov https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/05/08/2026-09142/employment-and-training-administration-program-year-2026-workforce-innovation-and-opportunity-act?utm_campaign=subscription+mailing+list&utm_medium=email&utm_source=federalregister.gov https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/05/08/2026-09142/employment-and-training-administration-program-year-2026-workforce-innovation-and-opportunity-act?utm_campaign=subscription+mailing+list&utm_medium=email&utm_source=federalregister.gov

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Attachment I

U. S. Department of Labor

Employment and Training Administration

National Farmworker Jobs Program

Grants.Gov Submission Instructions

Applicants must submit the application package through Grants.gov. Applicants who need to register with Grants.gov may do so through the Applicant Registration webpage. Registration is a one-time process and applicants with a current Grants.gov account do not need to register again.

To submit the required application package, applicants must:

• Select the SEARCH GRANTS tab on the Grants.gov homepage.

• Under the section, BASIC SEARCH CRITERIA, applicants enter the Funding

Opportunity Number for the applicable grant type for which they are applying:

o Career Services and Training Allotments: TEGL-ETA-PY26-AC o Housing Services Allotments: TEGL-ETA-PY26-MH o Youth Services Grants: TEGL-ETA-PY26-MY

• Select the link to the applicable Opportunity Number provided in the search results.

• Select the PACKAGE tab.

• Under the ACTIONS column, select APPLY.

This submission process may, at times, be complicated and time-consuming. As such, the

Department strongly encourages applicants to initiate the process as soon as possible to allow time to resolve unanticipated technical problems.

Applicants are required to supply a Unique Entity Identifier (UEI) on the SF-424. If your entity is registered with the System for Award Management (SAM) SAM.gov, your UEI has already been assigned and is viewable under your entity record. Organizations not registered with SAM.gov can obtain more information about a UEI at https://sam.gov/. Before submitting, applicants must also ensure their registration with SAM.gov. Applicants may find instructions for registering with SAM at https://www.sam.gov/. An awardee must maintain an active SAM registration with current information at all times during which it has an active

Federal award or an application under consideration. To remain registered in the SAM database after the initial registration, entities must review and update the registration at least every 12 months from the date of initial registration. Failure to register with SAM and maintain an active account will result in Grants.gov rejecting the application submission.

For technical issues encountered during application submission, applicants may call 800-

518-4726 or 606-545-5035 to speak to a Customer Support Representative or emailsupport@grants.gov. The Contact Center is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, but closes on federal holidays.

https://grants.gov/applicants/applicant-registration https://grants.gov/ https://sam.gov/ https://sam.gov/ https://sam.gov/ https://sam.gov/ https://www.sam.gov/ mailto:emailsupport@grants.gov

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An electronically submitted SF-424 through Grants.gov constitutes the official, signed document and must reflect the total amount requested in item #18, Estimated Funding. Item

#11 must include the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Number, 17.264.

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Attachment II

Employment and Training Administration

Applicable Funding Restrictions and Budget Narrative Instructions

Funding Restrictions.

Administrative Cost Limitation for NFJP Career Services and Training Grants, Housing

Services Grants, and Youth Services Grants:

• Administrative Cost Limitation: The administrative costs under this award are not to exceed 15 percent of the amount of the grant award. Such costs include both personnel and non-personnel costs and both direct and indirect costs. Administrative costs as defined in 20 CFR Part 683.215 are for the performance of administrative functions in carrying out activities under Title I of WIOA that are not related to the direct provision of workforce investment services (including services to participants and employers). Administrative costs do not need to be identified separately from program costs on the SF-424A Budget

Information Form and Budget Narrative. However, they must be tracked through the recipient’s accounting system.

For NFJP Career Services and Training Grant Recipients only (not Youth Services Grants or

Housing Services Grants):

• Minimum 70 Percent Spending Requirement on Employment and Training Services:

Recipients must spend not less than 70 percent of their awarded funds on “employment and training services,” as defined below. Accordingly, recipients may spend up to 30 percent of their awarded funds on a combination of administrative costs and other program costs, further subject to the administrative cost limitation of 15 percent specified at 20

CFR Part 683.215. The term “employment and training services” means all allowable career services, training services, housing services, and youth services as explained, respectively, in 20 CFR 685.340, 350, 360, and 370, including supportive services and related assistance services (as defined in 20 CFR 685.110 and further explained in 20 CFR

685.380). Employment and training services does not include administrative costs (as defined in 20 CFR 683.215). Employment and Training Services costs do not need to be identified separately on the SF-424A Budget Information Form and Budget Narrative.

However, they must be tracked through the recipient’s accounting system.

Budget Narrative Instructions.

Overarching Requirements:

• Each application package submitted by NFJP recipients must include a Budget Narrative that further explains and supports the projected costs reflected in each line item of the SF-

424A Budget Information Form.

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• The Budget Narrative should also include a section describing any leveraged resources provided (as applicable) to support grant activities. Leveraged resources are all resources, both cash and in-kind, in excess of this award. Valuation of leveraged resources follows the same requirements as match. Applicants are encouraged to leverage resources to increase stakeholder investment in the project and broaden the impact of the project itself.

• The Budget Narrative must also explain the estimated cost-per-participant range based on the minimum number of enrolled participants, the type of services included in the project, costs for specific training, and the type of supportive services that participants need to successfully engage in the program and realize their career goals.

• For Career Services and Training Grant Recipients Requesting Program Year 2026

Allotments - The submitted Budget Narrative must adhere to the amount of money allocated for each state service area detailed in Attachment III.

• For Housing Services Recipients Requesting PY 2026 Allotments - The submitted Budget

Narrative must adhere to the amount of permanent and temporary expenditures detailed in

Attachment IV. Individual grants are awarded for Housing recipients of the grants competition and are further allocated according to language in the appropriations law requiring that of the total amount available, not less than 70 percent shall be allocated to permanent housing activities, leaving not more than 30 percent to temporary housing activities. In the budget narrative, housing grantees must clearly differentiate between the permanent and temporary housing expenditures, as applicable.

• For Youth Services Grant Applicants - The submitted Budget Narrative must reflect the

Supplemental Funding amount requested.

Requirements for Explaining the SF-424A Line-Item Categories in the Budget Narrative

(reflective of Uniform Guidance revisions effective October 1, 2024):

• Personnel: List of all staff positions by title (including individuals hired by an employment contract) including the roles and responsibilities. For each position give the annual salary, the percentage of time devoted to the project, and the amount of each position’s salary funded by the grant.

• Fringe Benefits: Provide a breakdown of the amounts and percentages that comprise fringe benefit costs such as health insurance, FICA, retirement, etc.

• Travel: For grantee staff only, specify the purpose, number of staff traveling, mileage, per diem, estimated number of in-state and out-of-state trips, and other estimated costs for each type of travel.

• Equipment: Identify each item of equipment you expect to purchase that has an estimated acquisition cost of $10,000 or more per unit (or if your capitalization level is less than

$10,000, use your capitalization level) and a useful lifetime of more than one year (see 2

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CFR 200.1 for the definition of Equipment). List the item, quantity, and the unit cost per item. Items with a unit cost of less than $10,000 are supplies, not “equipment.” In general, we do not permit the purchase of equipment during the last funded year of the grant.

• Supplies: Identify the cost of supplies (e.g., general office supplies, desk/chairs, laptops/printers, other specialty items) in the detailed budget per category. Except for general office supplies, list the item, quantity, and the unit cost per item. Supplies include all tangible personal property other than “equipment” (see 2 CFR 200.1 for the definition of Supplies).

• Contractual: Under the Contractual line item, delineate contracts and subawards separately. Contracts are defined according to 2 CFR 200.1 as a legal instrument by which a non-federal entity purchases property or services needed to carry out the project or program under a federal award. A subaward, defined by 2 CFR 200.1 means an award provided by a pass-through entity to a subrecipient for the subrecipient to carry out part of a federal award received by the pass-through entity. This should include payments to a contractor for third-party evaluations that are not already accounted for elsewhere, if applicable. It does not include payments to a contractor or payments to an individual that is a beneficiary of a federal program. For each proposed contract and subaward, specify the purpose and activities to be provided, and the estimated cost.

• Construction (for Career Services and Training Grants and Youth Services Grants):

Construction costs are not allowed, and this line must be left as zero. Minor alterations to adjust an existing space for grant activities (such as a classroom alteration) may be allowable. We do not consider this as construction, and you must show the costs on other appropriate lines such as Contractual.

• Construction (for Housing Services Grants): Using grant funds for new construction is discouraged. For permanent housing services, renovations or rehabilitations of existing structures for grant activities may be allowable. We do not consider renovations or rehabilitations of existing structures as construction, and you must show the costs on other appropriate lines such as Contractual. Construction costs noted in the budget require a subsequent amendment seeking prior approval of the Grant Officer.

• Capital Improvements: The Uniform Guidance defines capital improvements/expenditures as expenditures to acquire capital assets or expenditures to make additions, improvements, modifications, replacements, rearrangements, reinstallations, renovations, or alterations to capital assets that materially increase their value or useful life. Grantees should note these projected expenditures in the Budget

Narrative; however, grantees must receive prior approval to utilize grant funds for capital improvements. This means grantees must submit a subsequent grant amendment following the receipt of their allotment award, which seeks specific approval of the expenditure.

Grantees must work with their assigned Federal Project Officer in the submittal of this amendment to ensure it has the appropriate detail.

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• Other: Provide clear and specific details, including costs, for each item so that we can determine whether the costs are necessary, reasonable, and allocable. List items, such as stipends or incentives, not covered elsewhere.

• Indirect Costs: If you include an amount for indirect costs (through a Negotiated Indirect

Cost Rate Agreement or De Minimis) on the SF-424A budget form, then include one of the following:

a. If you have a Negotiated Indirect Cost Rate Agreement (NICRA), provide an explanation of how the indirect costs are calculated. This explanation should include which portion of each line item, along with the associated costs, are included in your cost allocation base. Also, provide a current version of the NICRA; or

b. If you intend to claim indirect costs using the 15 percent de minimis rate of modified total direct costs (MTDC), please confirm that your organization meets the requirements as described in 2 CFR 200.414(f). Clearly state that your organization does not have a current negotiated (including provisional) rate, and is not one described in 2 CFR Part 200, Appendix VII(D)(1)(b).

Applicants choosing to claim indirect costs using the de-minimis rate must use MTDC as their cost allocation base. Provide an explanation of which portion of each line item, along with the associated costs, are included in your cost allocation base. Note that there are various items not included in the calculation of MTDC. See the definition below to assist you in your calculation.

• Modified Total Direct Cost (MTDC) Definition: To avoid a serious inequity in the distribution of indirect costs, DOL defines MTDC as all direct salaries and wages, applicable fringe benefits, materials and supplies, services, travel, and up to the first

$50,000 of each subaward or subcontract (regardless of the period of performance of the subawards and subcontracts under the award). MTDC excludes equipment, capital expenditures, charges for patient care, rental costs, tuition remission, scholarships and fellowships, participant support costs and the portion of each subaward or subcontract in excess of $50,000.

Please note participant support costs are not included in modified total direct costs. As defined under 2 CFR 200.1, Participant Support Cost means direct costs that support participants and their involvement in a Federal award, such as stipends, subsistence allowances, travel allowances, registration fees, temporary dependent care, and per diem paid directly to or on behalf of participants.

Additionally, the following link contains information regarding the negotiation of Indirect

Cost Rates at DOL: https://www.dol.gov/agencies/oasam/centers-offices/office-of-the-senior-procurement-executive/cost-price-determination-division.

Indirect-type costs (such as top management salaries, financial oversight, human resources, payroll, personnel, auditing costs, accounting and legal, etc. used for the https://www.dol.gov/agencies/oasam/centers-offices/office-of-the-senior-procurement-executive/cost-price-determination-division https://www.dol.gov/agencies/oasam/centers-offices/office-of-the-senior-procurement-executive/cost-price-determination-division

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general oversight and administration of the organization) must not be classified as direct costs; these types of costs are recovered as part of charging the de minimis or NICRA rate.

Do not show leveraged resources on the SF-424 and SF-424A. You should describe leveraged resources in the Budget Narrative.

Applicants must list the same requested federal grant amount on the SF-424, SF-424A, and Budget Narrative.

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Attachment III

Employment and Training Administration

National Farmworker Jobs Program

PY 2026 Career Services and Training Grant Awards

State Allotment

Total $89,405,000

Alabama 813,404

Alaska -

Arizona 2,675,831

Arkansas 1,326,132

California 24,274,537

Colorado 1,847,809

Connecticut 557,074

Delaware 171,805

Dist of Columbia -

Florida 3,317,746

Georgia 1,841,003

Hawaii -

Idaho 2,438,969

Illinois 2,032,957

Indiana 1,365,989

Iowa 1,952,373

Kansas 1,381,876

Kentucky 878,131

Louisiana 869,763

Maine 453,473

Maryland 579,075

Massachusetts -

Michigan 2,304,439

Minnesota 1,748,110

Mississippi 968,663

Missouri 1,355,182

Montana 777,327

Nebraska 1,385,877

Nevada 248,857

New Hampshire -

New Jersey 855,571

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State Allotment

New Mexico 1,186,750

New York 2,410,682

North Carolina 2,213,360

North Dakota 818,095

Ohio 1,597,227

Oklahoma -

Oregon 2,452,595

Pennsylvania 1,958,410

Puerto Rico 2,145,790

Rhode Island -

South Carolina 729,961

South Dakota 739,827

Tennessee 697,586

Texas 4,862,890

Utah 726,791

Vermont 227,517

Virginia 824,022

Washington 5,012,569

West Virginia 121,164

Wisconsin 1,910,457

Wyoming 347,334

California Grant Recipients Allotment

California Human Development

Corporation

5,671,587

Center for Employment and

Training

6,980,414

Central Valley Opportunity Center, Inc.

2,295,483

Proteus 4,362,758

Santa Barbara County 1,985,718

San Joaquin County 1,489,289

Ventura County 1,489,288

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Attachment IV

U.S. Department of Labor

Employment and Training Administration

Program Year 2026 Housing Grant Awards

State Grantee Service

Area(s)

Permanent

Housing Services

Total

Temporary

Housing Services

Total

Housing Services

Total

Alabama Alabama Non-

Profit Housing

NC

$525,493

$131,373

$656,866

Arizona PPEP

Microbusiness

& Housing

Development

Corp.

AZ

$853,681

$142,446

$996,127

California La Cooperativa

Campesina de

California

CA $582,894

$238,084

$820,978

Florida Florida Non-

Profit Housing

FL $1,313,731

$0

$1,313,731

Michigan Michigan

Department of

Labor &

Economic

Opportunity

MI

$919,612

$394,119

$1,313,731

New York PathStone

Corp.

NY &

PR

$611,635

$125,275

$736,910

Texas Motivation

Education &

Training, Inc.

TX $630,592

$70,065

$700,657

Total

$5,437,638

$1,101,362

$6,539,000

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Attachment V

U.S. Department of Labor

Employment and Training Administration

Program Year 2026 Youth Services Grant Application Instructions

In addition to applying for annual awards for Career Services and Training and Housing Services

Grants, this guidance also provides an opportunity for National Farmworker Jobs Program

(NFJP) grantees to apply for additional funding to serve Migrant and Seasonal Farmworker

(MSFW) youth, as explained below.

a. Submission Requirements. To be considered for a Program Year (PY) 2026 NFJP

Youth Services grant, grantees must submit the required documents through Grants.gov within 30 days of the publication of this Training and Employment Guidance Letter

(TEGL). Grantees should name each application submission according to the table below.

The naming protocol identifies the application package type and includes the name of the applicant organization and the state service area.

Migrant Youth TEGL-ETA-PY26-MY ABC Applicant - State - Youth

b. Eligibility. Eligibility requirements for applicants and participants are as follows:

i. Applicant Eligibility. To be eligible to apply for an NFJP PY 2026 Youth Services grant, organizations must meet the following requirements:

a. Received an award under the Funding Opportunity announcement FOA-ETA-

24-15, National Farmworker Jobs Program (NFJP) Grants for Career

Services and Training, and was approved to serve youth under that award.

b. Did not receive a PY 2024 or PY 2025 NFJP Youth Services Grant; and

c. Met 75 percent of their PY 2025 youth participant enrollment goal. To confirm if a grantee met 75 percent of their youth participant enrollment targets, The Employment and Training Administration (ETA) will use a grantee’s Quarterly Performance Report (ETA-9173) for Quarter End Date for

3/31/2026; Program Year to Date).

Below are the grant recipients for the PY 2025 Youth Service Grants:

• Oregon Human Development Corporation (Oregon)

• PathStone Corporation (Pennsylvania)

• PathStone Corporation (Puerto Rico)

• PathStone Corporation (Ohio)

Below are the grant recipients for the PY 2024 Youth Service Grants:

• County of San Joaquin (California)

• Motivation Education & Training, Inc. (Wyoming)

• Motivation Education & Training, Inc. (North Dakota)

• Motivation Education & Training, Inc. (Minnesota)

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• Proteus, Inc. (Nebraska)

• Proteus, Inc. (Indiana)

ii. Participant Eligibility. The services funded through these additional funds are for

Eligible migrant and seasonal farmworker youth ages 14-24 as defined at the NFJP regulations at 20 CFR 685.110. For information on NFJP program eligibility requirements, see TEGL 18-16, Change 2.

c. Allowable Activities.

Youth Services grant funds can be used to enhance a grant recipient’s ability to design and implement NFJP services, practices, and policies. For instance, activities can include:

i. Youth Workforce Services as described under 20 CFR 685.370. See WorkforceGPS -

WIOA Youth Program Elements.

ii. Outreach, recruitment, and strategic partnerships activities can include:

• Executing focused outreach and recruitment campaigns designed to reach potentially eligible youth participants to ensure they receive support to enroll in grant funded activities and increase their awareness of other available worker protections and services.

• Leveraging existing partnerships with the local workforce development board, state monitor advocate, and state workforce agency and enhance strategic partnerships with community organizations or other entities to identify and enroll eligible youth participants.

• Other activities that expand access to NFJP services for eligible youth participants.

d. Funding Restrictions

The administrative costs under this award are not to exceed 15 percent of the amount of the grant award. Such costs include both personnel and non-personnel costs and both direct and indirect costs. Administrative costs as defined in 20 CFR Part 683.215 are for the performance of administrative functions in carrying out activities under Title I of

WIOA that are not related to the direct provision of workforce investment services

(including services to participants and employers).

e. Application Components.

The Employment and Training Administration (ETA) will only fund applications that are responsive to the requirements of this guidance. To be considered for this additional funding, eligible applicants must submit a complete, high-quality application package.

The required components of the application package are as follows:

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i. Project Narrative. The applicant must submit a Project Narrative for an application to be considered responsive. The project narrative should be succinct, self-explanatory, and well organized so that reviewers can understand the proposed project. The Project Narrative is limited to five pages and must include information about the project design. Applicants must describe the activities the grant funding will support (allowable activities are described above in section c). Additionally, please describe current staff capacity and, if appropriate, explain any changes for staffing that would result from receiving the funding requested. Applicants must explain increased enrollment levels or improved service quality that would result from receiving the requested funding.

ii. SF-424 – Application for Federal Assistance. An electronically submitted SF-424 through Grants.gov constitutes an official signed document. The SF-424 must identify the legal name of the grantee organization, along with the organization' address, its Unique Entity Identification number (UEI) and its Employer

Identification Number (EIN), all of which must match the same information listed in the organization’s current registration with the System for Award Management

(SAM), found at https://www.sam.gov. Please review the SF-424 instructions document included on Grants.gov to ensure the correct completion of the SF-424. The state service area must be noted under the Areas Affected by Project section (item

#14).

iii. SF-424A Budget Information – Non-Construction Programs Form and Budget

Narrative. The SF-424A and Budget Narrative documents do not count against the page limit requirements for the Project Narrative. Applicants must submit the following budget documents:

• SF-424A, Budget Information - Non-Construction Programs Form. Please review the SF-424A instructions document included on Grants.gov to ensure the correct completion of the SF-424A. The total funding amount entered must match the funding requested in Field #18 of the SF-424.

• Budget Narrative - The Budget Narrative must follow the detailed instructions provided in Attachment II. Each line item/category amount on the Budget

Narrative must match the line item/category amount totals listed on the SF-424A.

Negotiated Indirect Cost Rate Agreement (NICRA) - Grantees including indirect charges on line 6.j of the SF-424A that are supported by a NICRA or Cost

Allocation Plan (CAP) must submit a current or recent copy of the NICRA or

CAP as part of this application. If a new NICRA has been requested but not finalized, the grantee must include a copy of the request. Please include the letter showing the date it was submitted. Grantees may elect to use a de minimis rate if the organization meets the requirements as described in 2 CFR 200.414(f).

f. Application Review and Award.

Applicants may apply for grants of up to $300,000 each. To receive this additional http://www.grants.gov/ https://www.sam.gov/

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If an eligible applicant omits any of the documents described within this attachment, or substantially fails to address the requirements of one or more of such documents, their application will be deemed non-responsive and will not be awarded. ETA encourages applicants to submit quality final applications before the deadline. While previous applicants may submit subsequent versions of their application if they realize that edits are needed, doing so will delay the submission and may cause an application not to be awarded. ETA will consider the latest submitted application to be the official submission.

ETA will only award PY 2026 NFJP Youth Services Grants to applicants who meet the eligibility requirements specified earlier in this TEGL. ETA will award funds to eligible, responsive applications on a first come, first serve basis. If there are more responsive applications than available funds, ETA will fund applications based on the order of receipt until it depletes available funds. For these reasons, ETA encourages eligible applicants to submit their applications via Grants.gov as soon as possible. The deadline for this application package is within 30 days of the publication of this TEGL. ETA may stop accepting applications earlier than this date if available funds are depleted before the official closing date. Applicants who do not submit a complete, comprehensive package with required documentation will not be considered.

Final award amounts will be determined subject to available funds. If the total requests are less than the available funding, or if additional funds become available, grant awards may be increased proportionately. If ETA does not receive responsive applications, it may request applicants, whose applications were deemed non-responsive, to resubmit a revised application for reconsideration, depending on the availability of funding. ETA will negotiate the final funding amount. ETA may require grant recipients to revise budget documents prior to award execution to account for discrepancies between funding requests and actual award amounts.

g. Financial Reports.

All award recipients are required to report financial data on the ETA-9130 Financial

Report through the U.S. Health and Human Services Payment Management System

(PMS). Reporting quarter end dates and the associated due dates for those reports are as follows: quarter ending March 31 is due May 16; quarter ending June 30 is due August

15; quarter ending September 30 is due November 15; and quarter ending December 31 is due February 15. The final financial report must be submitted no later than 120 calendar days after the end of the quarter encompassing the period of performance end date. For additional guidance on ETA's financial reporting, see TEGL No. 16-22 and TEGL No.

16-22, Change 1.

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h. Quarterly Performance Reports.

Applicants awarded an NFJP Youth Services Grant must submit quarterly a Form ETA–

9179 Quarterly Narrative Report to communicate progress of NFJP Youth Grant and outcomes for WIOA performance indicators and any additional performance indicators.

Performance accountability requirements for all NFJP grant recipients are available at

TEGL No. 14-18. For the purpose of assessing NFJP performance overall, ETA will consider performance outcomes achieved via activities fully or partially funded through these NFJP Youth grants as additive to youth outcomes achieved in the grantee’s main

NFJP CST Grant in the relevant Program Year, applying the same definitions, calculations, and timing rules.

https://www.dol.gov/agencies/eta/advisories/training-and-employment-guidance-letter-no-14-18

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Attachment VI

Employment and Training Administration

Program Year 2026 Performance Requirements

i. Performance Reports. NFJP Grantees will submit performance data through the Grant

Performance Management System (GPMS). GPMS will serve as the primary mechanism for grantees to enter, track, and submit the participant data that feeds into generating grantees

Quarterly Performance Reports (QPR) through the Workforce Integrated Performance

System (WIPS). The Department of Labor will provide technical assistance regarding requirements for using GPMS. Grantees should continue to submit the Joint Quarterly

Narrative Performance Report (QNR), Form ETA-9179 through WIPS. See the Funding

Opportunity Announcement (FOA-ETA-24-15) for information on performance indicators for Career Services and Training grants and FOA-ETA-24-18 for information on performance indicators for Housing Services grants.

ii. Financial Reports. All ETA award recipients are required to report financial data on the

ETA-9130 Financial Report through the U.S. Health and Human Services Payment

Management System (PMS). Reporting quarter end dates and the associated due dates for those reports are as follows: quarter ending March 31 is due May 16; quarter ending June 30 is due August 15; quarter ending September 30 is due November 15; and quarter ending

December 31 is due February 15. The final financial report must be submitted no later than

120 calendar days after the end of the quarter encompassing the period of performance end date. For additional guidance on ETA's financial reporting, reference TEGL No. 16-22 and

TEGL No. 16-22, Change 1.

iii. Period of Performance. Annual awards are based on Departmental application requirements and availability of funds. Each of these awards will be under a separate grant number having a fiscal 15-month period of performance, from July 1 to September 30 of the subsequent calendar year. The grantee’s annual award must be expended within the awarded 15-month timeframe. While ETA measures performance on a 12- month Program Year, July 1 to June

30, the extra quarter in the period of performance allows grant recipients to have flexibility to absorb minor fluctuations in spending within the four-year cycle without the need to request extensions from year to year. Therefore, grantees have an extra quarter to expend grant funds. Grantees must continue to file a Federal Financial Report, Form ETA-9130, each quarter for Program Year 2026 funds until those funds are fully expended or until the end of the grant period of performance is reached.

https://www.dol.gov/agencies/eta/advisories/tegl-16-22

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Attachment VII

U. S. Department of Labor

Employment and Training Administration

Risk Review Process

Prior to making an award, the Employment and Training Administration (ETA) will review and consider any information about the applicant that is in the responsibility/qualification records available in SAM.gov (see 41 U.S.C. 2313). Applicants may review and comment on any information in the responsibility/qualification records available in SAM.gov. Before making decisions in the risk review required by 2 CFR 200.206 and 2 CFR 2900.5, ETA will consider any comments by the applicant, along with information available in the responsibility/qualification records in SAM.gov.

Additionally, ETA will comply with the requirements of 2 CFR Part 180 implemented at 2 CFR

Part 2998 (Non-procurement Debarment and Suspension). This risk evaluation may incorporate results of the evaluation of the applicant’s eligibility (application screening) or the quality of its application (merit review). If ETA determines that an award will be made, special conditions that correspond to the degree of risk assessed may be applied to the award. Criteria to be evaluated include the following:

i. Financial stability. The applicant's record of effectively managing financial risks, assets, and resources;

ii. Management systems and standards. Quality of management systems and ability to meet the management standards prescribed in the Uniform Grant Guidance;

iii. History of performance. The applicant’s record of managing previous and current

Federal awards, including compliance with reporting requirements and conformance to the terms and conditions of Federal awards, if applicable;

iv. Reports and findings from audits performed under Subpart F–Audit Requirements of the

Uniform Grant Guidance or the reports and findings of any other available audits and monitoring reports containing findings, issues of non-compliance, or questioned costs;

v. Ability to effectively implement requirements. The applicant’s ability to effectively implement statutory, regulatory, and other requirements imposed on recipients

NOTE: As part of ETA’s Risk Review process, the Grant Officer will determine the following:

• If the applicant had any restriction on spending for any ETA grant due to adverse monitoring findings;

• If the applicant received a High Risk determination in accordance with TEGL 23-15.

Depending on the severity of the findings and whether the findings were resolved, the Grant

Officer may, at their discretion, elect not to fund the applicant for a grant award regardless of the applicant’s score in the competition.

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Attachment VIII

U. S. Department of Labor

Employment and Training Administration

Modification Process

Modifications to Four-year Program Plan and Re-negotiation of Performance Targets for

Career Services and Training Grants and Housing Services Grants

If a grantee needs to modify their four-year program plan or performance targets for Program

Year (PY) 2026, they should email their assigned FPO and copy NFJP@dol.gov within 10 days of the publication of this Training and Employment Guidance. For the email subject line, please use “PY 2026 NFJP Modifications.”

a. Four-year Program Plan. Per 20 CFR 685.410, each grantee submitted a comprehensive program plan covering PY 2024-2027 to the Department.