Veterans’ Priority of Service Frequently Asked Questions
- Question: What is Veterans’ Priority of Service and what does it mean?
Answer: Federal Law requires veterans and other covered eligible to be served ahead of or instead of all other job seekers in all U.S. Department of Labor-funded employment and training programs, notwithstanding any other provision in law. - Question: Who are the other covered people who are eligible?
Answer: Some spouses who are married to veterans who are 100% service-connected disabled, spouses of veterans who died from their disability, spouses of service members held prisoner or detained by a foreign or hostile power. - Question: What does “notwithstanding any other provision in law” mean?
Answer: Certain U.S.DOL-funded programs have other requirements in law. For example, U.S. DOL-funded Young Adult Programs have age criteria, some programs have income guidelines, others require applicants be laid off through no fault of their own, while others provide services to workers displaced by foreign trade. Veterans must meet the same program eligibility criteria as all other job seekers. - Question: If Veterans must meet the same program criteria as all other job seekers, what is the value of “Veterans Priority of Service”?
Answer: When veterans and non-veterans request U.S. DOL-funded employment services or training funds through their local American Job Center (AJC), the veterans request for service or application for training funds must be processed first. The value is that eligible and appropriate veterans are served first, and funded first, in all DOL programs. ? - Question: Are veterans given any preference with regard to job fairs?
Answer: Veterans are granted early access to larger PPWFC-sponsored job fairs.
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