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- 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 for the Adult Priority of Service requirement in WIOA section 134 (c)(3)(E) that requires American Job Center staff, when using WIOA Adult program funds to provide individualized career services and training services, to give priority of service to recipients of public assistance, low-income individuals, and individuals who are basic skills deficient (including English language learners).
Current Narrative:
(4) The Office of Workforce Development (OWD) requires that each local Workforce Development Board (WDB) establish a tiered, local, priority-of-service policy which must assign top priority to public-assistance recipients, other low-income individuals, and individuals who are basic-skills deficient, including English language learners. The policy must also allow other eligible individuals outside of the top-priority group to have access to these services. Local WDBs must have written policies that explain how they will give priority of service and adhere to these policies. OWD will ensure compliance through monitoring of data for each region in the state case management system and will provide technical assistance to regions that fail to meet their established policy.
OWD's Policy Issuance 08-2021: Statewide enrollment and exit policy states “These policies must also allow other eligible individuals outside of the top-priority group to have access to these services. DOL’s recommendation is to give priority of service to these individuals ensuring that at least 75% of a state’s participants receiving individualized career and training services, in the Adult program, are from at least one of the priority groups mentioned above. The priority of service rate must never be lower than 50.1%.”