Transcript On-the-Job Training/Subsidized Employment (OJT/SE)

Workforce Investment Act (WIA)
Eligibility and Required
Documentation
Eligibility and Required Documentation
WIA Eligibility
Registration
 Complete an Integrated Application which is
entered into SacramentoWORKS.
 Customer must sign that they have received:
o Authorization for the Release of Confidential
Information
o Non-discrimination/Equal Opportunity
Procedures
o Customer Code of Conduct
Eligibility and Required Documentation
Right to Work (RTW)
 The customer must provide proof of their
right to work (RTW), age and birthdate.
 The acceptable RTW documents are
listed in the EDD Brochure, “Attention
All Job Seekers”.
Eligibility and Required Documentation
Eligibility and Required Documentation
Eligibility and Required Documentation
Scanning of Documents
 All necessary documents must be scanned into
Vault prior to creation of the Participation and
Enrollment.
 Only original, unexpired, Right to Work (RTW)
documents will be scanned into Vault.
 Staff must not photocopy RTW documents to be
scanned at a later time.
Eligibility and Required Documentation
Selective Service System Registration
 Selective Service registration is required of all
males who are at least 18 years of age, born after
December 31, 1959, and who are not in the
armed services or on active duty.
 A Request for Status Information Letter is required
when a male born after December 31, 1959 has
never registered with the Selective Service and is
26+ years or older.
Eligibility and Required Documentation
Selective Service System Registration
 Males who are beyond their 26th birthday, and
are not registered with Selective Service, must
demonstrate that this failure to register was not
done knowingly or willfully.
 http://www.sss.gov is the Selective Service
website where registration requirements, and
exceptions to registration, can be reviewed.
Eligibility and Required Documentation
Eligibility and Required Documentation
Eligibility and Required Documentation
Eligibility and Required Documentation
Eligibility and Required Documentation
Qualifying Criteria and Priority of Service
 Customers who are Dislocated Workers and Veterans , or
eligible spouses of veterans, must provide documentation of
their status for the purpose of tracking, reporting, and to
ensure that services are being provided to those individuals
most in need.
 After complying with Right to Work and Selective Service
Registration requirements, an individual must meet any one of
five criteria to receive Dislocated Worker Services.
 The WIA Dislocated Worker Worksheet is an information and
verification assist tool, and is completed as part of the
Application process.
Eligibility and Required Documentation
Eligibility and Required Documentation
Eligibility and Required Documentation
Eligibility and Required Documentation
Stopgap Employment
 Stopgap employment means work an individual
does only because they have lost the customary
work for which their training, experience, or work
history qualifies them.
 Employment would be considered “stopgap” if
the salary were substantially below the salary of
the individual’s primary occupation, and/or if they
are working substantially under the skill level of
their customary occupation.
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Stopgap Employment
 There may be times when stopgap employment
provides a self-sufficient wage; e.g., contract
employment or employment obtained through
a temporary employment services agency.
 Such employment would not change the
individual’s dislocation worker status.
 Stopgap determination must be made on a case-bycase basis and consider an individual’s personal,
family, financial, and employment situation.
Eligibility and Required Documentation
Stopgap Employment
 Individuals engaged in stopgap employment are
reported as not employed
 Once registered as a dislocated worker, the
participant remains a dislocated worker until
they are exited from the program regardless of
employment status or earnings.
 If obtaining a full-time, permanent job, that pays
a self-sufficient wage or leads to self-sufficiency,
participant may be served until formally exited.
Eligibility and Required Documentation
Priority of Services for Formula Adult and
Dislocated Worker Program
 SETA has received specialized funding that provides
priority for enrollment to special populations
(including veterans, disabled, welfare recipients, and
dislocated workers).
 The Sacramento Works Board has determined that
there is sufficient funding in the region to provide
employment and training services to adults.
 The Sacramento Works Board has determined that a
priority of service system is not necessary for the formula
WIA Adult/Dislocated Worker program.
Eligibility and Required Documentation
Priority of Services for Formula Adult and
Dislocated Worker Program
 The Sacramento Works Board has approved a selfsufficiency standard for use in determining need for
training services.
 The self-sufficiency calculator should be used by
coaches and customers in the Scholarship application
and approval process to compare the income of each
customer with the wages necessary for that customer
to become self-sufficient .
(http://www.insightcced.org/calculator.html)
Eligibility and Required Documentation
Priority of Services for Formula Adult and
Dislocated Worker Program
 CalWorks and OJT participation eligibility is determined
by the Sacramento County Department of Human
Assistance.
 The document, “Program Eligibility and Data Collection”
(WIA Directive #IS22-09) lists, by funding system, the criteria
for enrolling in adult and youth programs, the elements
that are verified, and the documents used to verify each
of these elements.
 Eligibility documents must be scanned into the electronic
document storage system (Vault).