Elegibilidad
- Grant funds are limited to $15,000 per company per calendar year, $300 per instructional hour, and $3,000 per employee per course. Businesses are responsible for covering additional costs beyond these caps out-of-pocket.
- Massachusetts businesses with 100 or fewer Massachusetts W-2 employees may apply. In order to qualify, businesses must pay into the Workforce Training Fund. All for-profit companies pay into the fund.
- “Massachusetts businesses” are defined as companies with work being performed in Massachusetts that have an office, factory, warehouse or other physical location in Massachusetts. Neither employees’ home addresses nor P.O. boxes can be counted as locations for this purpose. Only companies that meet this definition and all other program guidelines can be approved for a Workforce Training Fund grant.
- Todos los aprendices deben ser empleados de nómina de tiempo completo o tiempo parcial de la empresa que recibe una subvención del Programa Express y deben estar empleados en Massachusetts. (Los aprendices no están obligados a vivir en Massachusetts).
- All applicants should be prepared to submit a Certificate of Good Standing (COGS) from the Massachusetts Department of Revenue. All COGS must have the business’s full legal name and a Notice Date within 6 months from the date of application submission. Click aquí para obtener su COGS del Departamento de Ingresos.
- All applicants should be prepared to submit a Certificate of Compliance from the Massachusetts Department of Unemployment Assistance (DUA). This certificate must have the business’s full legal name, FEIN, explicitly verify WTFP contributor status, and not be expired. Click aquí to learn how to obtain your Certificate from the Massachusetts DUA.
- All applicants should be prepared to submit a signed Form W-9 listing the full legal business name and FEIN of their business. The W-9 should be dated within a year of the date of application submission.
- Los contratistas o empleados de otras empresas (por ejemplo, temporales) no son elegibles para participar en la capacitación financiada por subvenciones.
- Eligible employers are encouraged to apply at any time for funding that is right sized to their current needs. Companies with 100 or fewer employees working in Massachusetts may apply and receive more than one Express Program grant at a time, up to a total of $15,000 in new grant funds per calendar year.
Reembolsos
- Reimbursement requests for approved training expenses must have four components to be reviewed:
- Reimbursement form (Page 2 of reimbursement document) – filled in completely, including information at the top, and signed by an authorized company representative.
- List of trainees.
- Training Provider Invoice that has the name of the course you took as shown on your Express Service Agreement, the training provider name, and the name of the business being billed.
- Proof of Payment
- Acceptable forms of proof of payment include: copy of bank statement, copy of cancelled check, copy of credit card statement/credit card activity (screenshots accepted), copy of QuickBooks statement or another accounting software showing the transaction was made y the payment cleared. See examples aquí.
- For our purposes, payment for training has not been made if money loaned to a grantee by the training provider was used to pay training expenses, and any part of the loan remains outstanding. Until any payment agreements between grantees and training providers for grant-funded training are fully satisfied, we do not consider payment complete and grant funds will not be released.
- Instructions for submitting a reimbursement request with documentation can be found aquí.
- Businesses with 100 or fewer Massachusetts employees may receive reimbursement for an approved course of up to $300 per instructional hour, with a maximum of $3,000 per person per course. Any training costs exceeding these limits are the responsibility of the grant recipient.
- The Express Program awards reimbursement amount based on businesses’ Massachusetts employee counts at the time of application, as follows:
- Up to 100% reimbursement for organizations with up to 50 Massachusetts employees at the time of application.
- Up to 50% reimbursement for orgs with 51 to 100 Massachusetts employees at the time of application
- Note: an exception will be made for Express awards made for English for Speakers of Other Languages, or ESOL, courses. Express awards to eligible companies with 51-100 employees will be made for up to 100% reimbursement for ESOL courses, within program guidelines.
Capacitación
- La capacitación no debe comenzar antes de la fecha de inicio del Acuerdo de servicio expreso.
- The Express Service Agreement start date is automatically set to be 21 days from the date of application submission. The end date is automatically set to be 1 year minus 1 day from the start date. There is no ability to change start and end dates within these parameters.
- Each training course should be completed within the timeframe entered in the application. Please notify us if your training schedule changes so we can update our record. All approved training must be completed within 12 months of the Express Service Agreement start date.
- On the Express Program application–within the Express Service Agreement start and end date–businesses may indicate a course start date no later than 6 months from the date of application submission.
- Employees participating in the training program should not have previously participated in the same or similar training that was funded by a previous Workforce Training Fund grant, either through the Express or General Programs.
- Note: an exception will be made for employees participating in WTFP-funded English for Speakers of Other Languages, or ESOL, courses. Eligible employees are permitted to attend an ESOL course that they have previously taken under a past grant made through the Express or General Programs.
- Los cursos que una empresa tiene la obligación legal de proporcionar a sus empleados no son elegibles para reembolso bajo este programa (por ejemplo, OSHA).
- Los solicitantes solo pueden seleccionar cursos que se enumeran en el Directorio de cursos Express. Sin embargo, si está interesado en seleccionar un curso que no está registrado actualmente, puede alentar al proveedor de capacitación a registrar el curso.
- A los empleados se les debe pagar a sus tarifas de pago regulares durante las horas de capacitación.
- Se permite la capacitación virtual o remota en vivo, sincrónica, dirigida por un instructor, pero los empleados deben asistir a la capacitación en el tiempo pagado. Las asignaciones o el trabajo previo también deben completarse en el tiempo pagado.
- Express-funded workplace English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) training is most commonly conducted fully during working hours. However, trainees may volunteer to take part in workplace ESOL training on their own time (i.e. off the clock). A minimum of 50% of employees’ time spent in ESOL training must be on company time and paid at their regular rate.
- For a grantee to qualify for reimbursement of the full amount awarded for a course, the full amount of training time listed under “Total Training Hours” in the approved course listing selected by the grantee must be delivered. Full price should not be charged by the provider, nor accepted by the grantee, for delivery of fewer training hours than is listed under “Total Training Hours” in the approved course. The program may consider approving reimbursement of a prorated portion of training fees based on actual time spent in training if fewer total training hours were delivered than what was approved in the service agreement.
- Grant funds cannot be used to pay for services provided by a member of immediate family of any company owner, investor, or employee. Thus, third-party training providers selected on an Express application cannot employ a member of the immediate family of any company owner, investor, or employee. The immediate family includes spouse, parents and grandparents, children and grandchildren, siblings, mother-in-law and father-in-law, brothers-in-law and sisters-in-law, daughters-in-law and sons in law, and step members.
- Grant funds cannot be used to pay for services provided by someone with ownership stake in the company that received the grant. Thus, a third-party training provider selected on an Express application cannot have an ownership stake in the company receiving grant funds.
- Commonwealth Corporation no respalda la calidad de los proveedores/cursos de capacitación que figuran en el directorio. Las empresas deben realizar su propia investigación y son responsables de confirmar la disponibilidad y el precio de los cursos con los proveedores de capacitación seleccionados antes de enviar una solicitud.
- Commonwealth Corporation no ofrece nosotros mismos la capacitación que figura en el directorio, ni coordinamos la capacitación (p. ej., inscripción, fechas de inicio y finalización, etc.) en nombre de los proveedores que figuran en nuestro directorio.
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