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Effective date: October 1, 2017
Revised date: October 15, 2018
Revised date: September 23, 2019
Anyone interested in being considered for the WIOA Title I Adult Program must be allowed to apply.1 All applicants must receive an eligibility determination.2 While WIOA is not an entitlement program,3 this only means that funding for WIOA programs is not unlimited. Local WDBs must offer services to all eligible applicants when funding is available.
Individuals are eligible for the WIOA Title I Adult Program if they are:
States and local WDBs may not add eligibility criteria, including, but not limited to, criteria related to county or state of residence.8
Any costs associated with providing WIOA Title I services to ineligible individuals may be disallowed.9
Eligibility Determination
Effective date: July 26, 2019
DWD-DET defines eligibility determination as applying the information collected during program registration to the eligibility criteria to see if the individual is eligible for the program.
Entitlement
Effective date: September 23, 2019
The right of a person, group of people, business, unit of government, or similar entity to receive payments from the federal government if they meet the eligibility criteria set in law. Spending levels for entitlement programs are determined by those programs' eligibility criteria and benefit or payment rules rather than through the annual appropriations process. Entitlements constitute a binding obligation on the part of the federal government, and eligible recipients have legal recourse if the obligation is not fulfilled.
https://www.senate.gov/reference/glossary_term/entitlement.htm
http://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/cbofiles/attachments/glossary.pdf#page=8
Eligible to Work in the United States
Effective date: October 1, 2017
Individuals eligible to work in the U.S. include (WIOA Sec. 188(a)(5); 20 CR §683.285(5)):