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173 PENNSYLVANIA UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION LAW PENNSYLVANIA UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION LAW PENNSYLVANIA UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION LAW transferred from the Unemployment Compensation Trigger Reserve Account to the Unemployment Compensation Fund shall become available for any purpose permitted under section 601. (601.3 added Oct. 19, 1988, P.L.818, No.109) Section 601.4. Job Training Fund.--
(a) There is hereby created a special fund to be known as the Job Training Fund.
Deposits in the fund shall include moneys transferred from the Special
Administration Fund pursuant to section 601.1. (b) and other moneys
appropriated to the fund.
(b) Subject to the provisions of subsections (c) and (d), the moneys in this fund
are hereby appropriated, upon approval of the Governor, to the Department
of Labor & Industry for the following purposes:
(1) Job training programs for incumbent workers, dislocated workers,
adult and youth workers, and any other work force development
training program, including equipment and supplies.
(2) Job training equipment, subject to a requirement for matching funds
from a source other than State funding.
(3) The costs of administering such training program.
(4) The costs of collecting interest and penalties under this act that are
transferred from the Special Administration Fund.
(c) Moneys from the fund shall be made available in the following order of priority:
(1) Counties of the sixth, seventh and eighth class.
(2) Counties of the first, second, second A, third, fourth and fifth
class, provided that there are insufficient applications for funding
under paragraph (1) and to the extent that funds remains available.
(d) The department shall make funds available to eligible entities as determined
under subsection (e) based on a competitive application process as determined by
the department. In distributing funding under this section, preferential
consideration shall be given to those counties with a higher unemployment rate.