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Chapter 1) Administration and Governance
Chapter 2) The One-Stop (Job Center) Delivery System
Chapter 3) Program Funding and Grants Management
Chapter 4) Fiscal Management
Chapter 5) Non-Discrimination/Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action
Chapter 6) Complaints, Grievances, and Appeals
Chapter 7) Individual Training Accounts and Eligible Training Programs
Chapter 8) Adult and Dislocated Worker Programs
Chapter 9) Rapid Response
Chapter 10) Youth Program
Chapter 11) Performance Accountability and Reporting
Chapter 12) File Documentation
Chapter 13) File Documentation
8.2.2 Dislocated Worker Program
Effective date: October 1, 2017 - October 14, 2018
Individuals are eligible for the WIOA Dislocated Worker Program if they:
- are 18 years of age or older; 1
- are eligible to work in the United States; 2
- are registered with Selective Service
(if applicable); 3 and
- meet the requirements for at least one of the Dislocated Worker Categories outlined below.
Note: If someone is required to register with the Selective Service, but has not, follow the
Failure
to Register for Selective Service procedure.
The local WDBs may not add eligibility criteria, including, but not limited to, criteria related to income or county
or state of residence. 4
Any costs associated with providing WIOA Title I services to non-eligible individuals may be disallowed. 5
Dislocated Worker Categories
Category 1 – Individual or Small Group Layoff 6
The individual meets the following:
- has been terminated or laid off or has received a notice of termination or layoff;
- is unlikely to return to a previous industry or occupation;
AND
- is eligible for or has exhausted unemployment payments stemming from the layoff used for program eligibility;
or
has been employed for long enough to demonstrate attachment to the workforce,
but is not eligible for unemployment payments because earnings were not sufficient to qualify or the job the
individual was laid off from was not covered under State unemployment compensation law.
Category 2 – Permanent Closure or Mass Layoff 7
The individual meets one of the following:
- has been terminated or laid off, or has received a notice of termination or layoff, because of a
permanent closure of any size or a layoff of 25 or more workers from a physical employment site or
from a virtual enterprise; 8
OR
- works at a physical employment site or for a virtual enterprise where the employer has made a
general announcement that the employment site will
permanently close or the virtual enterprise will end all operations within 180 days;
OR
- works at a physical employment site or for a virtual enterprise where the employer has made a
general announcement that the employment site will
permanently close or the virtual enterprise will end all operations, either in more than 180 days or
with no date given. In this case, the individual may receive only basic career services until
s/he receives a specific date of termination from the employer or until the closure is scheduled to
occur within 180 days.
Note: If an individual has received written notice from the employer of an anticipated
layoff date, even if that date is more than 180 days in the future or is subject to change, s/he is eligible for the full
range of WIOA services (i.e. basic and individualized career services, training services, and supportive services). A
layoff notice filed with DWD-DET is an acceptable notice of termination as required in (a), if an anticipated
layoff date (or dates) is provided.
Note: DWD-DET considers a closure to be permanent when
- the employer has specified that the closure is permanent;
- the employer has not indicated when the employment site or virtual enterprice will reopen;
OR
- the employer has given a date for reopening that is more than 12 weeks after the date of the dislocation.
Category 3 – Separating or Separated Members of the U.S. Armed Forces 9
The individual is separating or has separated from the U.S. Armed Forces
with a discharge that is anything other than dishonorable AND has received a DD-214
or other documentation (e.g. separation orders) showing separation or imminent
separation.
Note: It is appropriate to provide services to imminently separating service members, if their
discharge is expected to be anything other than dishonorable. Separating service members are required to participate
in the Transition Assistance Program (TAP) to ensure they are prepared for civilian employment. During the TAP program,
separating service members and their spouses are encouraged to contact job centers. 10
Category 4 – Self-employed 11
The individual was self-employed (includes employment as a farmer, rancher, fisher, or independent contractor
or consultant), but has become unemployed because of general economic conditions
or because of a natural disaster.
The individual has been doing unpaid work in the home and meets one of the following:
- has been dependent on the income of another family member, but is no
longer supported by that income (e.g., because the other family member was laid off, or because of death
or divorce)
and
is unemployed or underemployed and is having trouble either obtaining or upgrading employment;
OR
- is the dependent spouse of a member of the U.S. Armed Forces on
active duty whose family income has been
significantly reduced because of the service member's deployment, call or order to active duty, permanent
change of station, or service-connected death or disability
and
is unemployed or underemployed and is having trouble either obtaining or
upgrading employment.
Category 6 – Military Spouse 13
The spouse of a member of the U.S. Armed Forces on
active duty who meets one of the following:
- has lost employment as the direct result of relocation to accommodate a permanent
change in the service member's duty station;
OR
- is unemployed or underemployed and having trouble either obtaining or
upgrading employment.