[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: 20CFR617.4]

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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 A--General
 
Sec. 617.4  Benefit information to workers.

    (a) Providing information to workers. State agencies shall provide 
full information to workers about the benefit allowances, training, and 
other employment services available under subparts B through E of this 
part 617 and about the petition and application procedures, and the 
appropriate filing dates, for such allowances, training and services.
    (b) Providing assistance to workers. State agencies shall provide 
whatever assistance is necessary to enable groups of workers, including 
unorganized workers, to prepare petitions or applications for program 
benefits.
    (c) Providing information to State vocational education agencies and 
others. State agencies shall inform the State Board for Vocational 
Education or equivalent agency and other public or private agencies, 
institutions, and employers, as appropriate, of each certification 
issued under section 223 of the Act and of projections, if available, of 
the needs for training under section 236 of the Act as a result of such 
certification.
    (d) Written and newspaper notices. (1) Written notices to workers. 
(i) Upon receipt of a certification issued by the Department of Labor, 
the State agency shall provide a written notice through the mail of the 
benefits available under subparts B through E of this part 617 to each 
worker covered by a certification issued under section 223 of the Act 
when the worker is partially or totally separated or as soon as possible 
after the certification is issued if such workers are already partially 
or totally separated from adversely affected employment.
    (ii) The State agency will satisfy this requirement by obtaining 
from the firm, or other reliable source, the names and addresses of all 
workers who were partially or totally separated from adversely affected 
employment before the certification was received by the agency, and 
workers who are thereafter partially or totally separated within the 
certification period. The State agency shall mail a written notice to 
each such worker of the benefits available under the TAA Program. The 
notice must include the following information:
    (A) Worker group(s) covered by the certification, and the article(s) 
produced as specified in the copy of the certification furnished to the 
State agency.
    (B) Name and the address or location of workers' firm.
    (C) Impact, certification, and expiration dates in the certification 
document.
    (D) Benefits and reemployment services available to eligible 
workers.
    (E) Explanation of how workers apply for TAA benefits and services.
    (F) Whom to call to get additional information on the certification.
    (G) When and where the workers should come to apply for benefits and 
services.
    (2) Newspaper notices. (i) Upon receipt of a copy of a certification 
issued by the Department affecting workers in a State, the State agency 
shall publish a notice of such certification in a newspaper of general 
circulation in areas in which such workers reside. Such a newspaper 
notice shall not be required to be published, however, in the case of a 
certification with respect to which the State agency can substantiate, 
and enters in its records evidence substantiating, that all workers 
covered by the certification have received written notice required by 
paragraph (d)(1) of this section.
    (ii) A published notice must include the following kinds of 
information:
    (A) Worker group(s) covered by the certification, and the article(s) 
produced as specified in the copy of the certification furnished to the 
State agency.

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    (B) Name and the address or location of workers' firm.
    (C) Impact, certification, and expiration dates in the certification 
document.
    (D) Benefits and reemployment services available to eligible 
workers.
    (E) Explanation of how and where workers should apply for TAA 
benefits and services.
    (e) Advice and assistance to workers. In addition to the information 
and assistance to workers as required under paragraphs (a) and (b) of 
this section, State agencies shall--
    (1) Advise each worker who applies for unemployment insurance under 
the State law of the benefits available under subparts B through E of 
this part and the procedures and deadlines for applying for such 
benefits.
    (2) Facilitate the early filing of petitions under section 221 of 
the Act and Sec. 617.4(b) for any workers that the agency considers are 
likely to be eligible for benefits. State agencies shall utilize 
information received by the State's dislocated worker unit to facilitate 
the early filing of petitions under section 221 of the Act by workers 
potentially adversely affected by imports.
    (3) Advise each adversely affected worker to apply for training 
under Sec. 617.22(a) before, or at the same time as, the worker applies 
for trade readjustment allowances under subpart B of this part.
    (4) Interview each adversely affected worker, as soon as 
practicable, regarding suitable training opportunities available to the 
worker under Sec. 617.22(a) and review such opportunities with the 
worker.

[51 FR 45848, Dec. 22, 1986, as amended at 59 FR 927, Jan. 6, 1994]