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13.1.1 Required Co-Enrollment with the Dislocated Worker Program

Effective date: April 19, 2021 - December 31, 2022

Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) Program participants who are eligible for the Dislocated Worker Program must be co-enrolled in the Dislocated Worker Program, unless the TAA participant declines co-enrollment.¹

TAA career planners are primarily responsible for informing participants of the option to co-enroll in the Dislocated Worker Program and connecting them to the appropriate local program staff if they are interested² and not already enrolled.

DWD-DET cannot deny any TAA Program benefits or services to participants who decline co-enrollment with the Dislocated Worker Program.³ In cases where a participant declines co-enrollment, the TAA Program career planner is responsible for documenting this in an ASSET case note.

Most TAA Program participants will meet the Dislocated Worker Program eligibility criteria.⁵ However, some may be ineligible for the Dislocated Worker Program, including those who do not meet the Selective Service registration requirement, and will therefore be exempt from the co-enrollment requirement.⁶

Wisconsin, and, by extension each of the local workforce development boards, is required to follow the co-enrollment mandate even though WIOA and its corresponding regulations and federal advisories do not contain this requirement at this time.⁶

¹ 20 CFR § 618.325(a)(1)
² 85 FR 51913
³ 20 CFR § 618.325(a)(1)
⁴ 20 CFR § 618.325(b)(1)
⁵ 20 CFR § 618.325(b)(3)
⁶ As stated in 85 FR 51913, DOL bases this on the fact that, to receive annual TAA funding, the states must have an executed Governor-Secretary Agreement in place with DOL and this agreement requires compliance with all TAA authority.