Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA)
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Comprehensive Case Management and Employment Program (CCMEP)

Category 1 - Terminated or laid off, or received a notice of termination or layoff from employment

Has been terminated or laid off or has received a notice of termination or layoff from employment;

AND

Is eligible for or has exhausted entitlement to unemployment compensation;

OR

Has been employed for a duration sufficient to demonstrate attachment to the workforce, but is not eligible for unemployment compensation due to insufficient earnings or having performed services for an employer that were not covered under a state unemployment compensation law;

AND

Is unlikely to return to a previous industry or occupation.

Category 2 - Plant closure or substantial layoff

Has been terminated or laid off, or has received a notice of termination or layoff, from employment as a result of any permanent closure of or any substantial layoff at a plant, facility, or enterprise;

OR

Is employed at a facility where the employer has made a general announcement that such facility will close within 180 days;

OR

For purposes of eligibility to receive services other than training services described in section 134(c)(3) of WIOA, career services described in section 134(c)(2)(A)(xii) of WIOA, or supportive services, is employed at a facility at which the employer has made a general announcement that such facility will close.

Category 3 – Self-Employed Individual

Was self-employed (including employment as a farmer, a rancher, or a fisherman) but is unemployed as a result of natural disasters; or general economic conditions in the community where the individual resides.

Category 4 – Displaced Homemaker

Is a displaced homemaker. An individual who has been providing unpaid services to family members in the home and who has been dependent on the income of another family member but is no longer supported by that income and is unemployed or underemployed and is having trouble in obtaining or upgrading employment (may include spouses of dislocated workers)

Category 5 – Military Spouse

Is the spouse of a member of the Armed Forces on active duty (as defined in section 101(d)(1) of title 10, United States Code), and who has experienced a loss of employment as a direct result of relocation to accommodate a permanent change in duty state of such member;

OR

Is the spouse of a member of the Armed Forces on active duty and who meets the criteria of a displaced homemaker who is unemployed or underemployed and is having trouble in obtaining or upgrading employment.