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Publication Date: May 2001
Publisher: Center for Law and Social Policy
Author(s): Steve Savner; Nisha Patel
Research Area:
Type: Report
Coverage: United States
Abstract:
One of the key features of the Workforce Investment Act (WIA) is that WIA-funded training services for adults and dislocated workers must generally be paid for through vouchers called Individual Training Accounts or ITAs. Because many of the decisions about eligibility and priority for training services and about limitations on amounts and durations of ITAs are left to local workforce investment areas, policies have the potential to vary widely by locality. This preliminary report is the first stage of an on-going effort by CLASP to monitor implementation of ITAs. The report provides an overview of the requirements of the law related to training services and early examples of ITA policies that have been developed in local workforce investment areas.
Executive summary included as a supplementary file.