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Adult/Dislocated Worker Eligibility
been allocated to the State of Georgia.  The Workforce Investment Act of 1998 provides funding for the following
three groups:
Adults
Youth (Please refer to Youth Eligibility)
Eligibility Definitions


a.  An individual who has been laid off or who has received a  notice  of layoff due to no fault of their own;

b.  An individual who is eligible for or has exhausted entitlement to unemployment compensation; or has been
employed for a duration sufficient to demonstrate, to the appropriate entity at a one-stop center, attachment to the
workforce, but is not eligible for unemployment compensation due to insufficient earnings or having performed
services for an employer that were not covered under a State unemployment compensation law; and is unlikely to
return to a previous industry or occupation;

c.  An individual who has been laid off or has received a notice of layoff, from employment as a result of any
permanent closure of, or any substantial layoff at, a plant, facility or enterprise;

d.  An individual who is employed at a facility at which the employer has made a general announcement that such
facility will close within 180 days;

e.  Was self-employed (including employment as a farmer, a rancher, or a fisherman) but is unemployed as a result
of general economic conditions in the community in which the individual resides or because of natural disasters; or

f.  Is a displaced homemaker
    1.  An individual who has been providing unpaid services to family members in the home, is unemployed or
    underemployed and is experiencing difficulty in obtaining or upgrading employment, and
    2.  Has been dependent either on public assistance and whose youngest child is within two years of losing
    eligibility; or
    3.  Has been dependent on the income of another family member, but is no longer supported by that income.