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

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Workforce Investment Act (WIA) Eligibility and
Required Documentation
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Eligibility and Required Documentation

• WIA Eligibility
• Registration
• Complete an Integrated Application which is
  entered into SacramentoWORKS.
• Customer must sign that they have received
• Authorization for the Release of Confidential
  Information
• Non-discrimination/Equal Opportunity Procedures
• Customer Code of Conduct

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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.

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Eligibility and Required Documentation
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Eligibility and Required Documentation
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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.

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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.

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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.

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Eligibility and Required Documentation
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Eligibility and Required Documentation
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Eligibility and Required Documentation
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Eligibility and Required Documentation
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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.

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Eligibility and Required Documentation
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Eligibility and Required Documentation
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Eligibility and Required Documentation
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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
  individuals primary occupation, and/or if they
  are working substantially under the skill level
  of their customary occupation.

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Eligibility and Required Documentation
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 individuals
  dislocation worker status.

• Stopgap determination must be made on a
  case-by-case basis and consider an individuals
  personal, family, financial, and employment
  situation.

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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.

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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.

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Eligibility and Required Documentation

• Priority of Services for Formula Adult and
  Dislocated Worker Program
• The Sacramento Works Board has approved a
  self-sufficiency 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)

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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).