Idaho Receives Funding To Help Vets With Training, Job Assistance

Idaho is one of 12 states that is receiving second-year funding to help Vietnam-era veterans, veterans who have been recently separated from service and veterans with service-connected disabilities receive training and job assistance.

“Veterans from these target groups represent an underutilized talent pool which can add value to any organization seeking motivated, dependable, and technologically sound employees,” Secretary of Labor Alexis M. Herman said.

The grant funds, totaling more than $5.8 million, come from Title IV-C of the Job Training Partnership Act and are administered by the department’s Veterans’ Employment and Training Service.

Second-year funding depended on successfully meeting goals established when the grant was applied for.

Idaho’s portion of the $5.8 million is $242,096.