ETA Releases Guidance on WIA and Wagner-Peyser Recovery Act Funding

Today, the Employment and Training Administration (ETA), which is part of the Department of Labor, issued guidance on implementation of the Workforce Investment Act and Wagner-Peyser Act funding in the ARRA. The guidance also includes state planning requirements for program year FY 2009. This funding provides $3.9 billion to the workforce investment system to increase employment and training services. The guidance pertaining to the Wagner-Peyser Act notes that “states have flexibility to use Wagner-Peyser funds to support targeted services to individuals with disabilities, such as the disability navigator program similar to those currently operated in many one-stop centers” and to “purchase assistive technology and other devices to support providing services to individuals with disabilities.”