Washington Administrative Code › Title 192 - Employment Security Department › UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE › Chapter 192-270 - Training benefits › Section 192-270-035 - Time frames

Current through Register Vol. 24-14, July 15, 2024
(1) Information
				about training benefits will be included in the informational notice sent to
				you at the time you file your application for unemployment benefits (see WAC
				192-120-010)
				. For purposes of subsections (2) and (3) of this section, the informational
				notice is considered your notification of the eligibility requirements for the
				training benefits program.
(2)
				Submitting a training plan.
Except for dislocated workers eligible under
				  RCW
				     50.22.155(2)(a)(i), you have
				  ninety calendar days to submit a training plan to the department for approval,
				  beginning on the date you are notified by the department about the eligibility
				  requirements for training benefits. For new claims, the deadline will be
				  ninety-five calendar days from the date your application for benefits is filed,
				  which represents ninety days plus five days for the informational notice to
				  reach you if sent by regular mail.
(3) Enrollment in training.
Except for dislocated workers eligible under
				  RCW
				     50.22.155(2)(a)(i), you must
				  be enrolled in training within one hundred twenty calendar days, beginning on
				  the date you are notified about the eligibility requirements for training
				  benefits. For new claims, the deadline will be one hundred twenty-five calendar
				  days from the date your application for benefits is filed, which represents one
				  hundred twenty days plus five days for the informational notice to reach you if
				  sent by regular mail.
(4)
				If you are a dislocated worker eligible under
				RCW
				   50.22.155(2)(a)(i), you must
				submit a training plan and enroll in training prior to the end of your benefit
				year.
(5) Except for dislocated
				workers eligible under
				RCW
				   50.22.155(2)(a)(i), these
				time frames may be waived for good cause. For purposes of this section, "good
				cause" includes but is not limited to situations where:
(a) You were employer attached, including
				being on standby or partially unemployed, when you filed your claim for
				unemployment benefits but your attachment to your employer subsequently
				ended;
(b) You acted or failed to
				act on authoritative advice directly from department or partner staff upon
				which a reasonable person would normally rely;
(c) You were incapacitated due to illness or
				injury or other factors of similar gravity. "Illness" includes a request from a
				medical professional, local health official, or the Secretary of Health to be
				isolated or quarantined as a consequence of an infection from a disease that is
				the subject of a public health emergency, even if you have not been actually
				diagnosed with the disease that is the subject of a public health emergency;
				or
(d) Other factors which would
				effectively prevent a reasonably prudent person, as defined in WAC
				192-100-010,
				facing similar circumstances, from meeting the time frames established under
				this section.