Ohio Administrative Code › Title 5101:9 - ODJFS Practices › Chapter 5101:9-31 - Workforce Investment Act (WIA) Allocations › Section 5101:9-31-92 - Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) adult methodology

Current through all regulations passed and filed through July 1,
			 2024
(A) The Ohio
			 department of job and family services (ODJFS) issues the department of labor
			 (DOL) Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) allocations to
			 the local area WIOA fiscal agent on behalf of the
			 WIOA local workforce development boards (LWDBs)
			 to provide  adults with barriers to
			 employment the services they need to
			 succeed in the labor market. These services include increased access to
			 opportunities for employment, education, training and support
			 services.
(B) This allocation is
			 composed of one hundred per cent federal funds. The 
								assistance listings number is 17.258.
(C)
								
								ODJFS communicates the
			 funding and liquidation 
								periods for this allocation
			  through the
			 county finance and information system (CFIS). 
								The WIOA local area can
			 incur accruals through the end of the funding period 
								disburse and
								report
			 expenditures no later than the end of the liquidation period.
(D) ODJFS authorizes the WIOA adult funds on
			 a program year (PY) and/or a federal fiscal year (FFY) basis.
(E) Methodology.
ODJFS uses the following formulas to allocate formulary funding
				for WIOA local areas. Statistics used to
				calculate funding are provided by the office of workforce development (OWD) as
				described in the state plan approved by the DOL.
(1) ODJFS allocates one-third of the funds
			 based on the relative number of unemployed individuals in areas of substantial
			 unemployment in each WIOA local area, compared to
			 the total number of unemployed individuals in areas of substantial unemployment
			 in the state.
(2) ODJFS allocates
			 one-third of the funds based on the relative excess number of unemployed
			 individuals in each WIOA local area compared to
			 the total excess number of unemployed individuals in the state.
(3) ODJFS allocates one-third of the funds
			 based on the relative number of disadvantaged adults in each
			 WIOA local area compared to the total number of
			 disadvantaged adults in the state.
(4) Hold harmless provision
(a) ODJFS applies the "hold harmless"
			 provision which states that the WIOA local area
			 will not receive an allocation amount for a PY that is less than ninety per
			 cent of the average allocation percentage of the local area for the two
			 preceding PYs.
(b) ODJFS
			 
										calculates the amounts necessary for increasing
			 allocations to WIOA local areas in accordance
			 with the hold harmless provision by proportionately reducing the allocations
			 made to other WIOA local areas.
(c) If the amount of the WIOA funds
			 appropriated in a fiscal year are not sufficient to provide the amount
			 specified in paragraph (E)(4)(b) of this rule to all WIOA local areas, ODJFS  proportionally 
										reduces the
			 amounts allocated to each WIOA local
			 area.
(5) Should the DOL
			 issue a rescission of funds, ODJFS 
									determines the level of
			 adjustments needed to comply with the rescission.