To be eligible to receive services through the Workforce Investment Act, you must meet the following guidelines:
age 14 through 21 and low income, and within one or more of the following categories:
- not meeting the minimum basic literacy skills level,
- school dropout,
- homeless, runaway, or foster child,
- pregnant or parenting youth,
- offender, and
- is an individual (including a youth with a disability) who requires additional assistance to complete an educational program, or to secure and hold employment.
Up to 5 percent of youth participants serviced by youth programs in a local area may be individuals who are not low income, but who meet one of the above categories or an additional category determined by the local area.
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