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Rule 31 Jul 2025 regulatory compliance, veterans, administrative practice and procedure, financial assistance, reporting and recordkeeping requirements, employment, loan programs-education, colleges and universities, grant programs-education, vocational education, education, claims, health care, conflict of interests, civil rights, travel and transportation expenses, armed forces, grant programs-veterans, loan programs-veterans, manpower training programs, defense department, schools, training programs

🎓Update on 81-Month Rule for Dependents' Education Assistance

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is issuing this final rule to update its regulation governing a beneficiary's receipt of education assistance from two or more programs. This action is necessary to implement a statutory amendment enacted in August 2012, which authorized an 81-month aggregate period for use of Survivors' and Dependents' Educational Assistance (Chapter 35) benefits in combination with other programs listed in the statute. This rulemaking amends the regulation to align it with the current statutory text.

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Proposed Rule 2 Jul 2025 regulatory changes, administrative practice and procedure, reporting and recordkeeping requirements, employment, apprenticeship, department of labor, workforce development, nondiscrimination, equal employment opportunity, manpower training programs

🛠️Proposed Rule to Simplify Apprenticeship Discrimination Requirements

The Department of Labor (DOL or the Department) is issuing this notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) to remove undue regulatory burdens on registered apprenticeship program sponsors. The Department's proposal would rescind certain regulatory provisions that it believes are unlawful. It also includes conforming, technical changes to the Department's regulation that addresses Labor Standards for the Registration of Apprenticeship Programs. This proposed rule would streamline and simplify sponsors' obligations, while maintaining broad and effective nondiscrimination protections for apprentices and those seeking entry into apprenticeship programs. A brief summer of this document may be found at regulations.gov by searching by the RIN 1205- AC21.

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Rule 1 Jul 2025 administrative practice and procedure, reporting and recordkeeping requirements, aliens, civil rights, labor regulations, workforce development, individuals with disabilities, aged, nondiscrimination, equal employment opportunity, sex discrimination, manpower training programs, equal opportunity, religious discrimination, grant programs-labor, equal educational opportunity

❌Rescission of Nondiscrimination Provisions Under Workforce Investment Act

The U.S. Department of Labor (the Department) is rescinding its regulations implementing the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (WIA) containing the nondiscrimination and equal-opportunity provisions of WIA. In 2014, Congress passed the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA), which repealed WIA and required the Secretary of Labor to transition any authority under WIA to the system created by WIOA. Therefore, the Department is taking this action to remove regulations for a program that is no longer operative.

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Rule 1 Jul 2025 administrative practice and procedure, reporting and recordkeeping requirements, business compliance, employment, intergovernmental relations, penalties, indians, youth, labor regulations, workforce development, grant funding, labor, migrant labor, foreign trade, manpower training programs, employment training, job corps, manpower, grant programs-labor

📈Rescission of Workforce Investment Act Regulations and Business Impact

The Employment and Training Administration (ETA) of the Department of Labor (Department) is removing the regulations that implemented and governed the Title I Workforce Investment Act (WIA) programs at the national, State, and local levels and provided program requirements applicable to all WIA formula and competitive funds. Title I of WIA was repealed by Congress with the enactment of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) on June 22, 2014, and all remaining grant funding under Title I has been closed out by the Department. Accordingly, these regulations are no longer necessary, and the Department is taking this action to remove regulations from the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) for programs that are no longer operative.

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Compliance, Financial Assistance 16 Jan 2025 compliance, veterans, administrative practice and procedure, financial assistance, reporting and recordkeeping requirements, employment, loan programs-education, colleges and universities, grant programs-education, vocational education, education, claims, health care, conflict of interests, civil rights, travel and transportation expenses, armed forces, grant programs-veterans, loan programs-veterans, va regulations, manpower training programs, defense department, schools

🎓Post-9/11 VA Educational Assistance Regulations Overview

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is amending its regulations that govern VA's administration of educational assistance programs to implement the provisions of the Post-9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance Improvements Act of 2010, which modified the manner in which payments of educational assistance are determined and expanded the types of programs students may pursue under the Post-9/11 GI Bill; section 1002 of the Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2009, which authorized the "Marine Gunnery Sergeant John David Fry Scholarship;" and a select number of provisions of the Harry W. Colmery Veterans Educational Assistance Act of 2017.

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