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Unemployment Insurance Training Benefits Program

Unemployment Insurance Training Benefits Program. Proposed Scope and Objectives. JLARC Staff: Ryan McCord Amanda Ondrick. Why a JLARC study of Training Benefits?. 2011 legislation directed JLARC to evaluate the Training Benefits Program this year and every five years thereafter

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Unemployment Insurance Training Benefits Program

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  1. Unemployment Insurance Training Benefits Program Proposed Scope and Objectives JLARC Staff: Ryan McCord Amanda Ondrick

  2. Why a JLARC study of Training Benefits? • 2011 legislation directed JLARC to evaluate the Training Benefits Program this year and every five years thereafter • In 2012, JLARC staff presented a briefing report laying out our proposed approach to the evaluation Unemployment Insurance Training Benefits Program

  3. Program started in 2000 and administered by Employment Security Department • Provides up to 26 weeks of extended unemployment payments for people in training • Unemployed workers who are dislocated, low-income, disabled, military, or National Guard are eligible • Participants do not need to look for work while in training Unemployment Insurance Training Benefits Program

  4. Overview of Training Benefits Program • People receiving benefits per year on average • 1,400 • Total spending per year on average • $13 million • Funded by employer payroll taxes Unemployment Insurance Training Benefits Program

  5. Study scope addresses program implementation and outcomes • Examine the implementation and operation of the program • Review characteristics of program participants • Evaluate effectiveness in re-employing people in high demand occupations Unemployment Insurance Training Benefits Program

  6. Five study objectives Implemented according to legislative intent? 1 Are the program partners working together effectively? 2 Administrative costs? 3 Who are program participants? 4 How do participants’ employment outcomes compare to nonparticipants’? 5 Unemployment Insurance Training Benefits Program

  7. Next Steps and Contacts Preliminary Report December 2015 Proposed Final Report January 2016 Ryan McCord, Project Lead ryan.mccord@leg.wa.gov 360-786-5186 Amanda Ondrick, Research Analyst amanda.ondrick@leg.wa.gov 360-786-5174 Mark Fleming, Research Analystmark.fleming@leg.wa.gov360-786-5181 Valerie Whitener, Project Supervisor valerie.whitener@leg.wa.gov 360-786-5191 www.jlarc.leg.wa.gov

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