[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: 20CFR631.20]

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                      TITLE 20--EMPLOYEES' BENEFITS
 
 CHAPTER V--EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
 
PART 631--PROGRAMS UNDER TITLE III OF THE JOB TRAINING PARTNERSHIP ACT--Table of Contents
 
                    Subpart C--Needs-related payments
 
Sec. 631.20  Needs-related payments.


    (a) Title III funds available to States and substate grantees may be 
used to provide needs-related payments to participants in accordance 
with the approved State or substate plan, as appropriate.
    (b) In accordance with the approved substate plan, needs-related 
payments shall be provided to an eligible dislocated worker only in 
order to enable such worker to participate in training or education 
programs under this part. To be eligible for needs-related payments:
    (1) An eligible worker who has ceased to qualify for unemployment 
compensation must have been enrolled in a training or education program 
by the end of the thirteenth week of the worker's initial unemployment 
compensation benefit period, or, if later, by the end of the eighth week 
after an employee is informed that a short-term layoff will in fact 
exceed 6 months.
    (2) For purposes of paragraph (b)(1) of this section, the term 
enrolled in a

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training or education program means that the worker's application for 
training has been approved and the training institution has furnished 
written notice that the worker has been accepted in the approved 
training program beginning within 30 calendar days.
    (3) An eligible worker who does not qualify for unemployment 
compensation must be participating in a training or education program 
(section 314(e)(1)).
    (c) Needs-related payments shall not be provided to any participant 
for the period that such individual is employed, enrolled in, or 
receiving on-the-job training, out-of-area job search, or basic 
readjustment services in programs under the Act, nor to any participant 
receiving trade readjustment allowances, on-the-job training, out-of-
area job search allowances, or relocation allowances under Chapter 2 of 
Title II of the Trade Act of 1974 (19 U.S.C. 2271, et seq.) or part 617 
of this chapter (section 314(e)(1)).
    (d) The level of needs-related payments to an eligible dislocated 
worker in programs under this part shall not exceed the higher of:
    (1) The applicable level of unemployment compensation; or
    (2) The poverty level (as by the published by the Secretary of 
Health and Human Services) (section 314(e)(2)).