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4.16.2 Requirements for the 35% Expenditure Goal

Effective: July 1, 2022 - December 31, 2022

Local Workforce Development Boards (WDBs) should spend at least 35% of their annual formula program funding allotment¹ for each of the Adult, Dislocated Worker, and Youth programs on direct cost services. Meeting this goal will ensure that program resources are focused on successfully preparing participants to enter and/or advance in the workforce. This will also allow participants to access the financial supports necessary for them to participate in program services and activities reasonably and successfully without incurring debt.

WDBs may include in the direct cost services calculation all expenditures paid directly to, or on behalf of, a participant, such as:

tuition and other training-related costs,
supportive service costs, including needs-related payments,
youth incentive payments, and
costs for career services and youth program elements paid directly to, or on behalf of, a participant, such as wages for work experiences² and/or transitional jobs, costs related to an out-of-area job search, or costs associated with relocation.

The 35 percent expenditure goal is calculated using only programmatic funding. Neither the numerator nor the denominator of this calculation includes administrative costs.

Programmatic costs that fund staff wages and benefits for the coordination of such services³ shall not be included in the numerator of this calculation.

¹ This does not include administrative funds.
² This differs from the expenses allowable when calculating the 20 percent expenditure requirement for youth work experience, which allows the inclusion of staff costs for certain work experience related activities.
³ DWD-DET considers such activities to be "case management" and does not consider "case management" to be a direct participant cost.