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- Program-Specific Requirements for Wagner-Peyser Program (Employment Services)
All Program-Specific Requirements provided for the WIOA core programs in this section must be addressed for either a Unified or Combined State Plan.
c. Describe the State’s Strategy for Providing Reemployment Assistance to Unemployment Insurance Claimants and Other Unemployed Individuals.
Current Narrative:
All Indiana Unemployment Insurance (UI) Claimants:
Are profiled as they file their initial claim to determine the level of assistance likely needed in order to return to meaningful work. Reemployment Services and Eligibility Assessment Program (RESEA) and the Jobs for Hoosiers (JFH) programs, (described further below), identify unemployed Hoosiers at the fourth week of their claim and include: UI eligibility review, claimant-centered labor market information, referral to a self-directed job search, and an orientation to the one-stop services. In addition, RESEA participants will be required to complete an Individual Reemployment Plan (IRP) and additional services such as job search workshops, job search assistance, employment counseling, and referrals to other employment services.
RESEA participants will receive all of the mandatory RESEA program requirements and additional reemployment services typically during the four (4) weeks of intensive services provided following orientation day activities. Jobs for Hoosiers (JFH) is a fast-track REA program which provides information on the vast reemployment services available through the WorkOne centers statewide. Additional reemployment services are available but are not required by JFH participants unless the claimant agrees to do them.
While the state of Indiana brings in those eligible UI claimants who are most likely to exhaust their UI benefits for reemployment activities, there are numerous other clients who are long-term unemployed, underemployed or are reentering the workforce. Indiana’s WorkOne offices and staff utilize numerous tools to help these individuals find reemployment. Specifically, the state has partnered with its workforce regions to provide the same reemployment services and strategies that are provided for the RESEA and JFH claimants. Our expertise gained through the RESEA and JFH programs have helped our staff build the skills necessary to help all Hoosiers find employment.
UI Claimants must be able, available, and actively seeking full time work for each week benefits are claimed. Each claimant’s efforts to secure full time work must include three job search activities per week. A claimant must apply for suitable work and must accept any offer of suitable work made to the claimant. Whether work is suitable depends upon the claimant’s work experience, training, and the duration of the claimant’s unemployment. Claimants are made aware of these UI eligibility requirements and the consequences for failing to meet the requirements throughout the claim-filing process in Uplink and through the Claimant Handbook, which is available on the DWD and Uplink sites.