Useful Links from WOTCPlanet.com Main Page
This evening, we added a new link in the “Important Government Links” section on the WOTCPlanet.com main page. If you’re viewing the site, the links are listed down the right side of the page, as are other helpful offerings. The latest link is to the U.S. Department of Labor Employment and Training Administration’s Advisory System (aka “DOL ETA Advisories”). The Department of Labor’s website explains it this way:
The Employment and Training Administration (ETA) Advisory system is used to disseminate ETA’s interpretations of Federal laws, procedural, administrative, management, program direction and other information to the states, direct grant recipients and other interested parties.
- Published in Federal Regulation, Helpful Links
Final Guidance about Disconnected Youth and Unemployed Veteran WOTC Groups
I have wanted to write about this for a couple of weeks now, but as you know if you follow the news, there has been a lot going on.
On March 5, 2010 the U.S. Department of Labor’s Employment and Training Administration issued Training and Employment Guidance Letter NO. 3-09 Change 2. (I’m not complaining, but even the names of these documents are complicated.) (more…)
- Published in Disconnected Youth, Veterans, Work Opportunity Tax Credit
Deadline for Use of New WOTC Form ETA 9061
As I wrote yesterday, the recent Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) 3-09 included the revised WOTC form that we’ve been waiting for — DOL ETA 9061. TEGL 3-09 also indicated that within two weeks, WOTC centers would be prohibited from accepting the old version of the form. The last day to use the old form, therefore, was September 16th.
HOWEVER, my contact in California’s WOTC center tells me today that the U.S. Department of Labor seems to be backing down from that deadline (although perhaps only informally at this point). As a result, the California WOTC center is not yet rejecting WOTC applications that use the old forms. (more…)
- Published in Work Opportunity Tax Credit
New WOTC Form and Guidance from U.S. Department of Labor
The long wait is over!
The U.S. Department of Labor has issued a new WOTC-related Training and Employment Guidance Letter (or TEGL) dated September 1, 2009. TEGL No. 3-09 provides guidance about documentation standards for the two new WOTC eligibility categories created by the February stimulus bill. It also includes the new Department of Labor Form ETA 9061 – Individual Characteristics Form that we must begin using immediately in order to obtain WOTC employee certifications. (more…)
- Published in Disconnected Youth, Veterans, Work Opportunity Tax Credit