The Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) program provides benefits and support to workers who lose their jobs due to international trade impacts. To receive benefits, an affected worker, union, or company must file a petition with the Department of Labor describing the circumstances of the job loss. DOL investigates to determine if increased imports, offshoring, or other trade-related issues caused the job loss. If certified, workers can access benefits like training, income support, job search assistance, and health care tax credits to help find new employment.

1. one-Stop ContaCt
Career CenterS InformatIon
One-Stop Career Centers are “full service” For a copy of a petition and further information,
please contact:
career centers. You can learn about employment
opportunities, training opportunities, and all of U.S. Department of Labor
the other assistance available to help you get Office of Trade Adjustment Assistance
back to work. Room N-5428
200 Constitution Ave., NW
Maintain contact with your local One-Stop Washington, DC 20210
Career Center to ensure proper understanding http://www.doleta.gov
of the rules, meet deadlines, and receive
benefits and services under the expanded Phone:
TAA program. 1-888-DOL-OTAA (1-888-365-6822) or
202-693-3560
Fax:
202-693-3584 or
202-693-3585
Web:
http://www.doleta.gov/tradeact
To find the One-Stop Career Center
nearest you, call:
1-877-US2-JOBS,
1-877-889-5627 (TTY),
or visit:
http://www.servicelocator.org
Trade Adjustment Assistance as expanded by the
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
Note: This brochure is intended as a general description
and is not legally binding.

2. BenefItS AND ServICeS
If you are a member of a worker group certified
by DOL and are determined to be individually
eligible by your state, you may be eligible to
receive the following benefits and services:
The Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) program Upon receiving a petition, DOL immediately employment Skill assessments, career
was created to provide benefits and support to begins an investigation to determine whether and Case counseling, supportive
workers who become unemployed due to the the circumstances of the layoff meet the group management services, information on
impact of international trade. The TAA program eligibility criteria established by the Trade Act of Services: training, and more.
seeks to provide U.S. workers who are adversely 1974, as amended. The Department may contact
Up to 156 weeks of
affected by trade with the opportunity to obtain customers and suppliers of the company, and
training: full-time or part-time
the skills, resources, and support they need others, in order to determine whether the criteria
training.
to become reemployed. An adverse effect below are met.
includes a job loss or threat of job loss.
Up to 156 weeks of cash
You may be eligible for TAA if your job is lost or
payments for workers
The first step to receiving TAA benefits and threatened due to trade-related circumstances trade enrolled in full-time
services is to submit a petition to the U.S. such as: readjustment training within 26 weeks
Department of Labor (DOL). Petitions may allowances: of their trade-related layoff
• Increased imports of either articles or
be submitted by: or certification, whichever
services; is later.
• Three or more workers in the same firm
• A shift in production to or an acquisition of
or subdivision; A tax credit covering 80%
services or articles from any foreign country Health
• The workers’ employer; by your company; of the worker’s monthly
Coverage
premium for qualified health
• An acquisition of services from any foreign
tax Credit: insurance.
• A union official or other duly authorized
representative of such workers; or country by your public agency employer;
A wage subsidy for up to
• One-Stop operators or partners (including • Your employer’s loss of business from a reemployment
2 years that is available to
state workforce agencies and dislocated customer with TAA-certified workers; or trade
workers age 50 or over
worker units). adjustment
• Your employer is identified as trade-injured who get reemployed at a
assistance: reduced salary.
A petition identifies a worker group at a specific by the International Trade Commission.
firm or subdivision and covers all individuals
After investigating the petition, DOL certifies Job Search For costs of a job search
in that group. Generally, if a worker is laid off,
or denies group eligibility to apply for TAA. allowance: outside your local area.
a petition must be submitted within one year
Workers in a certified group then apply
of the layoff for that worker to be covered by For costs of relocating
individually for benefits and services through relocation
the petition. to a job outside your
their local One-Stop Career Center. allowance:
local area.