Trade Adjustment Assistance Program - Annual Program Summary
Purpose
This program assists workers in reentering the workforce as quickly as possible through help in work search, relocation, job training, and weekly cash benefits.
Customers
and Services
Customers are incumbent workers who have lost their jobs due to increased imports or foreign competition.
Benefits and reemployment services include training; job search allowances; relocation allowances; and weekly cash benefits called Trade Readjustment Allowances (TRA) that are paid to eligible workers following their exhaustion of unemployment insurance. Other benefits include Health Coverage Tax Credit, which is financial assistance for health insurance premium costs; and Alternate Trade Adjustment, which is a benefit for eligible workers who are over 50 years old.
Measures - Reporting period is federal fiscal year (FFY), October 1 - September 30
FFY 2005 |
FFY 2006 |
FFY 2007 |
|
| Number of workers receiving weekly benefits | 1,762 |
950 |
732 |
| Number of workers enrolled in training | 1,641 |
565 |
539 |
Funding Source and Allocation
This program is funded by an annual U.S. Department of Labor grant. Annual funding is approximately $5M.
Statutory Authority
-- Federal Trade Act of 1974, Public Law 93-618, as amended; U.S. Code, Title 19
Contact Information
Vel Rempel, Program Coordinator
Phone: 651.259.7549;
Fax: 651.296.0288; TTY: 651.296.3900
E-mail:
Vel.Rempel@state.mn.us
Website:
www.deed.state.mn.us/taa/index.htm
This information current as of January 2008. For more information on DEED programs, see the State of Minnesota budget pages.