Policies & Guidance

To revise the State policy concerning the definition of commuting area pursuant to transportation allowances, subsistence, job search allowances, and relocation allowances under the Trade Adjustment Assistance (T AA) Program.

To inform staff in all SC WORKS Centers of the requirement to provide Veterans with a 24-hour period of priority in job referrals to all staff-entered and employer-entered job orders in SC WORKS Online Services (SCWOS).

To address whether a business can utilize both an Apprenticeship Training and the Work Opportunity Tax Credit programs simultaneously.

This guidance provides additional detail on implementation of the Workforce Investment Act (WIA) participant lifetime IT A cap imposed by the State Workforce Investment Board (SWIB).

To clarify when a paid work experience activity may be classified as a "training situation" for the purpose of paying stipends versus wages to participants.

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.

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.