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Trade Adjustment Assistance_Workers
Published on AidPage by IDILOGIC on Jun 24, 2005
Who can benefit...
A TAA beneficiary must: 1) be found by the Labor Department to have been adversely affected by increased imports, 2) be certified by the Secretary of Labor as eligible to apply for adjustment assistance, and 3) meet the following individual requirements: 1) his or her unemployment or underemployment must have begun on or after the impact date specified in the Secretary's certification as the beginning of the import-impacted unemployment or underemployment; 2) his or her unemployment must begin before the expiration of the 2-year period beginning on the date on which the Secretary issued the certification for his or her group or before the termination date, if any, specified in the certification. In addition, to be eligible for weekly trade readjustment allowance (TRA) payments her or she must: 1) have been employed with wages at a minimum of $30 per week by the import-affected firm for a least 26 of the previous 52 weeks including the week of total layoff (up to 7 weeks of employer- authorized leave may be counted as qualifying weeks of employment or up to 26 weeks of disability compensation); and 2) be enrolled in or have completed an approved job training program, unless the determination is made that training is either not feasible or not appropriate, in which case a waiver of the training requirement may be issued. II. Individual eligibility requirements for NAFTA-TAA are similar to the TAA requirements described, except that when authorized payment of TRA, the State cannot issue a waiver of the training requirement if the State finds that training is not feasible or appropriate. To receive TRA, the claimant must be enrolled in an approved training program within 6 weeks of the Secretary's issuance of the certification or within 16 weeks of the worker's most recent qualifying separation, whichever is later.
Beneficiaries
About this section:
This section lists the ultimate beneficiaries of a program, the criteria they must satisfy and who specifically is not eligible. The applicant and beneficiary will generally be the same for programs that provide assistance directly from a Federal agency. However, financial assistance that passes through State or local governments will have different applicants and beneficiaries since the assistance is transmitted to private sector beneficiaries who are not obligated to request or apply for the assistance.
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