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Plan: Indiana PYs 2016-2017
Unified Plan U

Section: Wagner-Peyser Act

Narrative: c.

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c. Describe the State’s Strategy for Providing Reemployment Assistance to Unemployment Insurance Claimants and Other Unemployed Individuals.

Current Narrative:

All Indiana Unemployment Insurance (UI) Claimants:

  • Are profiled as they file their initial claim to determine the level of assistance likely needed in order to return to meaningful work
  • Must report to a WorkOne Center
  • Must be able, available, and actively seeking full time work for each week UI is claimed.
  • Each claimant’s efforts to secure full time work must include the submission of at least one job application and a search for two additional positions during each week in which the claimant files a weekly claim for UI benefits.
  • A claimant must apply for suitable work and must accept any offer of suitable work made to the claimant. Suitable work is variable based on the claimants work experience, training, and duration of the claimant’s unemployment.

Claimants are made aware of these UI eligibility requirements and the consequences for failing to meet the requirements through Indiana’s Uplink system, which is Indiana’s unemployment benefits automated UI registration and claim filing system.

Reemployment Services and Eligibility Assessment Program (RESEA) and the Jobs for Hoosiers (JFH) programs, (described further below), capture unemployed Hoosiers at the fourth week of their claim and include: UI eligibility review, claimant-centered labor market information, referral to a self-directed job search, and an orientation to the one-stop services. In addition, RESEA participants will be required to complete an Individual Reemployment Plan (IRP) and additional services such as job search workshops, job search assistance, employment counseling, and referrals to other employment services.

RESEA participants will receive all of the mandatory RESEA program requirements and additional reemployment services during the four (4) additional weeks of intensive services provided following orientation day activities. Jobs for Hoosiers (JFH) is a fast-track REA program which provide information on the vast reemployment services available through the WorkOne centers statewide.

While the state of Indiana brings in every eligible UI claimant for reemployment activities, there are numerous other clients who are long-term unemployed, underemployed or are reentering the workforce. Indiana’s WorkOne offices and staff utilize numerous tools to help these individuals find reemployment. Specifically, the state has partnered with its workforce regions to provide the same reemployment services and strategies that are provided for the RESEA and JFH claimants. Our expertise gained through the RESEA and JFH programs have helped our staff build the skills necessary to help all Hoosiers find employment.