Located in:
- Program-specific Requirements for Adult, Dislocated Worker, and Youth Activities under Title I-B
The Unified or Combined State Plan must include the following with respect to activities carried out under subtitle B—
b. 4. Describe how the State will implement and monitor the priority for public assistance recipients, other low-income individuals, and individuals who are basic skills deficient in accordance with the requirements of WIOA sec. 134(c)(3)(E), which applies to individualized career services and training services funded by the Adult Formula program
Current Narrative:
Priority of Service: Policy PY15-03 Adult Priority of Service requiring priority of service for participants of the Adult program has been implemented as follows:
As stated in WIOA Section 134(c)(3)(E), with respect to provision of individualized career services and training services funded with WIOA Title I -Adult funds, priority of service must be given to:
- Recipients of public assistance
- Other low-income individuals
- Individuals who are basic skills deficient
The following sequence of priority will apply:
- First priority will be provided to recipients of public assistance, other low-income individuals, and individuals who are basic skills deficient in the local area who are covered persons with respect to veterans’ priority. Per 683.230 when past income is an eligibility determinant for a veteran, any amounts received as military pay or allowances by any person who served on active duty and certain other specified benefits must be disregarded for the veteran and for other individuals for whom those amounts would normally be applied in making an eligibility determination for the purpose of determining if the veteran or covered person is a low-income individual.
- Second priority will be provided to recipients of public assistance, other low-income individuals and individuals who are basic skills deficient who are not covered veterans.
- Third priority will be covered persons with respect to the veterans’ priority, those covered persons not considered to be recipients of public assistance, low-income or basic skills deficient - who meet one or more of the barriers to employment identified as a priority by the local area, as defined in local board policy.
- Fourth priority will be with respect to non-veterans, who are not recipients of public assistance, low income, or basic skills deficient but who meet one or more of the barriers to employment identified as a priority by the local area, as defined in local board policy.
- Fifth priority will be with respect to adults with other barriers as identified in Local Board policy.
Priority of service does not apply to the dislocated worker or youth populations.
For the purpose of establishing income eligibility for priority of service, people with disabilities are considered a household of one. As outlined in WIOA Section 3(36)(A)(vi), a person with a disability can be considered a low-income individual under the priority of service if the individual’s own income meets the income requirement described in WIOA Section 3(36)(A)(ii), even if the individual is a member of a family whose income exceeds the poverty line or is 70 percent of the Lower Living Standard Income Level.
Individualized career services and training services, outlined in WIOA Section 134(c)(2)(A)(xii), are subject to priority of service. Basic career services, outlined in WIOA Section 134(c)(2)(A)(i)-(xi), are not subject to the priority of service as they must be made available to all.
The Local Board has discretion to identify populations in the local area who are not low income, basic skills deficient, or recipients of public assistance but who are individuals documented as having other barriers to employment. Local Boards must establish local policy regarding the determination and implementation of a priority of service specific to the local area.