AMERICAN RECOVERY and REINVESTMENT ACT of 2009
Questions
Unemployment Compensation Related Questions
- What immediate impact will the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act have on Florida’s Unemployment Compensation program?
- When can customers expect to begin receiving the additional $25 per month in unemployment compensation benefits?
- How will customers receive the additional benefits?
- Do customers have to apply for federal extensions or additional benefits?
- Does Extended Unemployment Compensation (EUC) or the additional $25 in benefits affect Florida’s Unemployment Compensation Trust Fund?
Workforce Services Related Questions
- How much of the stimulus funding is tied to workforce services?
- What is the difference between “supplementing” and “supplanting” when federal rules require that funds be used to supplement, not supplant other Federal, State, or local public funds?
- What does the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) say about prohibited activities?
- Does section 1604 apply to regular formula WIA funding?
- Does section 1604 apply to youth and adult work experience activities?
- Does section 1604 only apply to the summer months for youth work experience?
- Can ARRA funds be used to place work experience participants in areas that contain multiple activities, only some of which are prohibited by section 1604?
- What kind of services will the WIA program provide?
- What kind of training can I get?
- Can the WIA Program pay for other costs while I’m in training?
- How do I apply to receive help from the WIA Program?
- Is there a backlog of customers requesting training?
- What determines the type of training a customer can receive?
- Does the training allocation pay the entire cost of training?
- What other benefits are there?
- How do we know that we’re not just training folks for jobs that do not exist?
- How do you request specific training (welders) in my area?
Adult and Dislocated Worker Program Questions
- Who is eligible for the WIA Adult and Dislocated Worker Programs?
- What is meant by the statement: “Within the WIA Adult Program, the ARRA requires that local areas give priority to recipients of public assistance and other low-income individuals”?
- Who is eligible for WIA Youth Programs?
- The Summer Youth Program plan instructions seem to imply that the regional workforce board must procure a service provider to operate the Summer Youth Program. Does this mean that the Regional Workforce Board can not operate the program?
Vendors and other Service Providers
- How does a training facility learn about the program?
- What does a training vendor do to get on the training provider list?
- Does language in TEGL 14-08 (issued by USDOL) that is mentioned below allow us to reinstate the scholarship programs?
Scholarships: TEGL 14-08, Page 6, under Contracts with Institutions of Higher Education…. Talks about “…allowing local workforce boards to pay for the full cost of training at the beginning of the course.”
- Will the state’s 50 percent Individual Training Accounts (ITA) rule in law apply to the stimulus money as well?
- What are needs related payments?
- Who can receive a needs related payment?
- Are there any other requirements that an adult or dislocated worker participant must meet in order to receive a needs related payment?
- Can a participant in the WIA Youth program receive a needs related payment?
- May an RWB provide needs related payments to participants while they are receiving unemployment compensation (UC)?
- Is there a maximum benefit amount a job-seeker can receive?
- Can a Local Board establish a needs related payment level that is less than the amount that the participant received from Unemployment Compensation or the Trade Act Program?
- Is there a cap on the aggregate amount a job seeker may receive?
- Must the recipient of these payments be enrolled in training?
- Are there any restrictions on how the job seeker may use these payments?
Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA)
- When do the changes to TAA under the Recovery Act take effect?
- How can I tell if I am covered under the Old TAA Program or the New TAA Program?
- What are some examples of new groups of workers that may now be certified under the New TAA Program?
- I am a worker who is already part of a certified worker group. Can I get the benefits as provided under the New TAA Program instead of the benefits provided in the Old Program?
- I filed a petition for TAA certification recently and my petition was denied. May I file a petition under the New TAA Program?
- I filed a petition currently under review by the Department of Labor but I think I want the benefits available under the New TAA Program. What should I do?
- I am considering filing a petition. Should I wait until after May 18, 2009 in order to receive the New Program benefits?
- How do I get more information?
- What are the major changes in benefits?
Early Learning Related Questions
- How much additional funding for childcare will Florida receive from the federal stimulus package?
- How will the additional stimulus funds be used in the School Readiness program?
- How will the stimulus funds for the School Readiness program be allocated and how can I find out if I’m eligible?
- Does the State of Florida have to put up any money to receive the additional stimulus funds for the School Readiness program?
- Is there a time limit on how long additional stimulus funds will be available to the School Readiness program?
- How many additional children are anticipated to be served as a result of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act?