Adult Eligibility
This is the minimum age a customer must be to qualify for the WIOA Adult program.
What is 18 years old?
WIOA recognizes these three types of career services.
What are basic, individualized, and follow-up career services?
True or false: A customer must complete individualized or “intensive” career services before WIOA can approve training.
What is false?
In addition to work authorization and applicable Selective Service requirements, a customer must meet this to qualify for the WIOA Dislocated Worker program.
What is the WIOA definition of a dislocated worker?
A customer comes in asking about job openings but is not ready to enroll in training. Providing job-search and placement assistance falls under this service category.
What are basic career services?
In addition to meeting the age requirement, an Adult applicant must be authorized to do this in the United States.
What is work in the United States?
Determining WIOA eligibility, conducting intake and orientation, and completing an initial assessment fall under this type of career service.
What are basic career services?
Before training services are approved, the CA must ensure this is completed in WorkInTexas.com.
What is a training justification?
A worker is laid off, is eligible for or has exhausted unemployment benefits, and is unlikely to return to the previous industry or occupation. This WorkInTexas.com Dislocated Worker category applies.
What is Category 1?
During assessment, a CA discovers that transportation and dependent-care costs could prevent a customer from completing training. When determining available training funding, these costs should be considered as part of this.
What is the full cost of participating in training?
What group receives statutory priority for WIOA Adult individualized career and training services, regardless of funding levels.
Who are Veterans and eligible spouses?
A comprehensive assessment identifies employment barriers and goals and is used to develop this individualized document.
What is an Individual Employment Plan, or IEP?
A customer’s chosen training should generally align with occupations appearing on this locally established list.
What is the Board’s Targeted Occupations List?
A self-employed rancher becomes unemployed because of a natural disaster. This Dislocated Worker category may apply.
What is Category 5?
A customer paid tuition before registering for WIOA and now asks the CA to have WIOA reimburse that tuition. This is the correct answer.
What is no?
A customer’s SNAP benefits ended four months ago. Because SNAP receipt within this lookback period satisfies WIOA’s low-income requirement, the CA can still determine that the customer is low-income.
What is the past six months?
A customer obtains unsubsidized employment after participating in Adult or Dislocated Worker activities. WIOA follow-up services must be made available, as appropriate, for at least this long after the first day of employment.
What is 12 months?
A customer qualifies for WIOA training but has applied for a Pell Grant and the application is still pending. True or false: the CA must wait for the Pell decision before the customer can begin WIOA-funded training.
What is false?
A customer has been temporarily laid off and has a specific date on which the employer will recall them. This is the CA’s correct Dislocated Worker eligibility determination based on that temporary layoff.
What is the customer does not qualify as a WIOA Dislocated Worker based on the temporary layoff?
A customer requests training for an occupation outside the Board’s targeted list. A case-by-case exception requires sufficient, verifiable documentation showing high potential for these two labor-market conditions.
What are sustained demand and growth?
Two eligible adults request training. Alex is a nonveteran receiving SNAP. Morgan is a veteran who is not low-income, receives no public assistance, and is not basic skills deficient. Under WIOA Adult priority rules, this customer receives higher priority.
Who is Alex?
A CA determines through an informal interview that a customer is basic skills deficient. Instead of completing the formal Basic Skills Assessment form, the CA must document the determination here.
What is a WIT Case Note?
A veteran qualifies for WIOA-funded training and has VA education benefits available. The CA says, “You have to exhaust your VA training benefits before WIOA can pay.” This is what is wrong with that statement.
What is VA education and training benefits do not have to be exhausted before WIOA-funded training?
An active-duty service member’s spouse loses a job directly because the family relocates to accommodate the service member’s permanent change of duty station. This Dislocated Worker category applies.
What is Category 7?
A customer says, “I do not qualify for unemployment, so I cannot be a Dislocated Worker.” The customer was laid off, had enough employment to demonstrate workforce attachment, lacked sufficient earnings to qualify for unemployment, and is unlikely to return to the previous industry. This is the category the CA should investigate.
What is Dislocated Worker Category 2?