20 CFR § 681.450 - For how long must a local Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act youth program serve a participant?

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identifier: "/us/cfr/t20/s681.450"
source: "ecfr"
legal_status: "authoritative_unofficial"
title: "20 CFR § 681.450 - For how long must a local Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act youth program serve a participant?"
title_number: 20
title_name: "Employees' Benefits"
section_number: "681.450"
section_name: "For how long must a local Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act youth program serve a participant?"
chapter_name: "EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR"
part_number: "681"
part_name: "YOUTH ACTIVITIES UNDER TITLE I OF THE WORKFORCE INNOVATION AND OPPORTUNITY ACT"
positive_law: false
currency: "2026-04-05"
last_updated: "2026-04-05"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
authority: "Secs. 107, 121, 123, 129, 189, 503, Pub. L. 113-128, 128 Stat. 1425 (Jul. 22, 2014)."
regulatory_source: "81 FR 56398, Aug. 19, 2016, unless otherwise noted."
cfr_part: "681"
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# 681.450 For how long must a local Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act youth program serve a participant?

Local youth programs must provide service to a participant for the amount of time necessary to ensure successful preparation to enter postsecondary education and/or unsubsidized employment. While there is no minimum or maximum time a youth can participate in the WIOA youth program, programs must link participation to the individual service strategy and not the timing of youth service provider contracts or program years.