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handle is hein.crs/govedyo0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Congressional SResearch Service Trade Adjustment Assistance for Workers: Sunset Provisions and Reversion 2021 July 9, 2021 Trade Adjustment Assistance for Workers (TAA) provides federal assistance to workers who have lost their jobs due to international trade. The primary benefits for TAA-eligible workers are funding for training and reemployment services as well as income support while a worker is enrolled in training. TAA was most recently reauthorized by the Trade Adjustment Assistance Reauthorization Act of 2015 (TAARA; Title IV of P.L. 114-27). TAARA contained sunset provisions that became effective July 1, 2021, and expire on June 30, 2022. The sunset provisions make significant changes to the program for new program participants. Department of Labor (DOL) documents collectively refer to these newly effective provisions as Reversion 2021 because they largely reflect a reversion to TAA provisions that were in place under the Trade Act of 2002. After July 1, 2022, new petitions can no longer be certified and the TAA program is scheduled to be phased out. Workers covered by previously certified petitions may continue to receive benefits after July 1, 2022, as the program is being phased out. Similar sunset provisions with a reversion and scheduled phase out were part of the immediately prior reauthorization of TAA (Trade Adjustment Assistance Extension Act of 2011, Title II of P.L. 112-40). The reversion provisions were implemented in January 2014, but congressional action delayed the phase out provisions that were scheduled for January 2015 and the subsequent enactment of TAARA in June 2015 formally extended the program. Overview of the TAA Program TAA is jointly administered by DOL and cooperating state agencies. DOL makes group eligibility determinations, grants appropriated funds to cooperating state agencies, and oversees state grantees. Benefits for individual workers are provided through state workforce systems and state unemployment insurance systems. To establish TAA eligibility, a group of adversely affected workers petitions DOLto establish that the workers' job losses were due to a qualified trade-related cause. If a DOL investigation finds that qualified trade factors contributed importantly to the workers' job losses, the petition is certified and the workers become eligible for benefits. Congressional Research Service https://crsreports.congress.gov IN11700 CRS INSIGHT Prepared for Membersand Committeesof Congress

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