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. 5. Describe the State’s criteria regarding local area transfer of funds between the adult and dislocated worker programs
Current Narrative:
Virginia has issued guidance, VWL 16-02 Local Area WIOA Funds Transfer Procedures. This administrative guidance describes the procedure for initiating a request to transfer funds, up to 100%, between the adult and dislocated worker streams under a particular allocation cycle by Local Workforce Development Boards.
For purposes of the WIOA, LWDBs must submit on letterhead a written or electronic request to transfer funds between the adult and dislocated worker streams to the WIOA Title I Administrator for administrative review and approval on behalf of the Governor. The WIOA Title I Administrator will communicate its determination on the request within 10 business days of receipt of the request.
Transfer requests must include:
- WIOA program year affected
- Amount of the proposed transfer
- An impact analysis indicating the anticipated impact to the program from which funds are being moved and to the program which will receive the funds
The impact analysis shall include:
- Expenditures for the adult and dislocated worker programs for each of the last three years
- The number of adult and dislocated worker participants in each program for the last three years
- A narrative describing how the receiving program participants will benefit from the transfer as well as how the impact on the contributing program will be mitigated, including how the remaining participants will be served
- An impact analysis statement by the LWDB indicating that the LWDB has assessed the potential program impacts of the transfer request prior to submission to the WIOA Title I Administrator
In order to make a determination, the WIOA Title I Administration staff will also review the LWDB’s most recent Monthly Expenditure Detail Report (MEDR) for the program year to confirm that sufficient unobligated funds in the source stream are available to fund the requested transfer.
Approved transfers will result in the requesting LWDB receiving a signed Transfer Authorization from the Virginia’s WIOA Title I Administrator. The Authorization does not result in an actual change in the allocation by stream in the original Notice of Obligation. Authorization of transfers and transfer-funded expenditures to date shall be reported by the LWDB on subsequent MEDR for the applicable program year.
VWL 16-02 will be updated to reflect that the Title I Administrator is acting at the request of and on the behalf of the Governor in making determinations regarding approval or denial of LWDB transfer of funds requests.
Reference:
VWL 16-02 Local Area WIOA Funds Transfer Procedures: https://virginiacareerworks.com/wp-content/uploads/VWL-16-02-Local-WIOA-Funds-Transfer-Procedures.pdf