Policies & Guidance

To standardize pre-award review criteria to be completed and documented jointly by local areas and relocating/expanding businesses as a prerequisite to Workforce Investment Act (WIA) assistance.

The purpose of this issuance is to transmit instructions for the development and implementation of the local area referral policy on youth aging out of foster care.

To issue State policy concerning the Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) Program.

This instruction revises Incumbent Worker Training (IWT) policy. IWT funds are intended to provide resources for employers to train currently employed workers in an effort to keep businesses and workers competitive. On January 18, 2007, the State Workforce Investment Board approved changes in the policy framework relevant to business eligibility for IWT funds.

To provide Local Workforce Development Areas (LWDAs) guidance related to obligation and expenditure of WIOA funds and to transmit the Voluntary Reallocation Request Form.

To provide data validation procedures for the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA), Wagner-Peyser (WP), Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA), Jobs for Veterans' State Grants (JVSG), and National Dislocated Worker Grants (DWG) programs administered by the Department of Employment and Workforce (DEW).

This guidance updates the list of activity codes for the Wagner-Peyser (WP) and Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) Title I programs, to include the addition of soft skills instruction. 

To update State policy regarding the annual deadline to submit changes to data in SC Works Online Services (SCWOS), and to clarify the deadline for submitting data change requests to be included in performance. This guidance replaces State Instruction 18-05. 

To update State policy regarding the annual deadline to submit changes to data in the SC Works Online Services (SCWOS) system. This guidance rescinds State Instruction 15-15.

This guidance provides updated information concerning the management of source documents for Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) program participants. This policy rescinds State Instruction 14-01.