2. Workforce Innovation and
Opportunity Act (WIOA)
WIOA assists eligible customers with training funds that
could lead to a Certificate or Credits to help reenter the
workforce.
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3. Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act
What are some of the requirements to be eligible for training
funds?
• WIOA sponsorship is based on individual eligibility,
suitability, and available funds.
• WIOA is not an entitlement program.
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4. Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act
General Eligibility Information:
• Must have US Citizenship or Alien Status
• 18 or Older (unless qualifying forYouth program)
• Must be registered with Selective Service
• If male born on of after 1/1/1960
• Selective serviceWebsite.
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5. Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act
DOCUMENTATION
General personal documentation needed:
• Birth Certificate
• Social Security Card
• ValidVirginia Drivers License
• Alien certification card
• Selective service registration
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7. Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act
If you fit one of these categories, you may be
eligible for funding assistance.
•Dislocated
•Adult
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8. WIOA Eligibility
DISLOCATED WORKERS
A DislocatedWorker is an individual who has been permanently laid off
from their job (within the last two years) due to no fault of their own.
• Lay-off, reduction of force
• Business closure
• Loss of self-employment
• Displaced homemaker
• Spouses of members of the Armed Forces on Active Duty
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9. WIOA Eligibility
ADULTS
Adults:
• If you are receiving SNAP (food stamps)
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• Based on the number of people in your family and
your family income for the last six months.
• Income documents are required for all household
members, IE, w-2, year-to-date pay stubs
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10. Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act
PROGRAM
Now, what do I do?
1. Are you eligible for one of these categories?
Dislocated? Adult?
2. Then, go to the state’sVirginiaWorkforce Connection System and check out
the approved training vendors that you might want to attend.
www.vawc.Virginia.gov
3. Start gathering your general personal documentations (Birth Certificate,
Social Security Card and validVirginia driver’s license,Alien Certification
card, Selective Service Registration).
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11. Congratulations on the completion of the
WIOA Introduction
If you meet the eligibility, please click on the link below to receive
your Certificate of Completion (Only if you meet the
requirements). After you open the certificate write your name,
today’s date and print it.