[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 20, Volume 3]
[Revised as of April 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 20CFR617.10]

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                      TITLE 20--EMPLOYEES' BENEFITS
 
 CHAPTER V--EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
 
PART 617--TRADE ADJUSTMENT ASSISTANCE FOR WORKERS UNDER THE TRADE ACT OF 1974--Table of Contents
 
             Subpart B--Trade Readjustment Allowances (TRA)
 
Sec. 617.10  Applications for TRA.


    (a) Before and after certification. An individual covered under a 
certification or a petition for certification may apply to a State 
agency for TRA. A determination shall be made at any time to the extent 
necessary to establish or protect an individual's entitlement to TRA or 
other TAA, but no payment of TRA or other TAA may be made by a State 
agency until a certification is made and the State agency determines 
that the individual is covered thereunder.
    (b) Timing of applications. An initial application for TRA, and 
applications for TRA for weeks of unemployment beginning before the 
initial application for TRA is filed, may be filed within a reasonable 
period of time after publication of the determination certifying the 
appropriate group of workers under section 223 of the Act. However, an 
application for TRA for a week of unemployment beginning after the 
initial application is filed shall be filed within the time limit 
applicable to claims for regular compensation under the applicable State 
law. For purposes of this paragraph (b), a reasonable period of time 
means such period of time as the individual had good cause for not 
filing earlier, which shall include, but not be limited to, the 
individual's lack of knowledge of the certification or misinformation 
supplied the individual by the State agency.
    (c) Applicable procedures. Applications shall be filed in accordance 
with this subpart B and on forms which shall be furnished to individuals 
by the State agency. The procedures for reporting and filing 
applications for TRA shall be consistent with this part 617 and the 
Secretary's ``Standard for Claim Filing, Claimant Reporting, Job Finding 
and Employment Services'', Employment Security Manual, part V, sections 
5000 et seq. (Appendix A of this part).
    (d) Advising workers to apply for training. State agencies shall 
advise each worker of the qualifying requirements for entitlement to TRA 
and other TAA benefits at the time the worker files an initial claim for 
State UI, and shall advise each adversely affected worker to apply for 
training under subpart C of this part before, or at the same time, the 
worker applies for TRA, as required by Sec. 617.4(e)(1) and (3).

[51 FR 45848, Dec. 22, 1986, as amended at 59 FR 928, 943, Jan. 6, 1994