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The Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) Program is afederal entitlement program that assists U.S. workerswho have lost or may lose their jobs as a result offoreign trade. This program seeks to provide adverselyaffected workers with opportunities to obtain theskills, credentials, resources, and support necessaryto become reemployed. Since 1975, the TAA programhas served more than 2 million U.S. workers.1The first step to receiving TAA benefits and servicesis to file a petition on-line or by mail with the U.S.Department of Labor (DOL). Petitions are availableon-line and may also be obtained at American JobCenters. The petition may be filed by:ƒƒ Three or more workers in the same firm orsubdivision;ƒƒ The workers’ employer;ƒƒ A union official or other duly authorizedrepresentative of such workers; orƒƒ American Job Center operators or partners(including state workforce agencies and dislocatedworker units).Upon receiving a petition, DOL initiates aninvestigation to determine whether the circumstancesof the layoff meet the group eligibility criteriaestablished by the Trade Act of 1974, as amended.

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