Education and Employment Rate – Fourth Quarter After Exit
RequiredoutcomeFOA-ETA-26-38No. 2
Tier 1: Collect todayTier 3: Needs a partner
The outcome sits in a record another agency holds. You hold the participant list and count it.
You count your own participants; the state wage record confirms the outcome.
Partner routes for wages and employment
- CA: employment and quarterly earnings Held by Employment Development Department, UI wage records.
- Rule
- State-law authority or participant authorization; EDD offers DE 5600 authorization and a DSA process. Federal private-agent disclosure is permitted under 20 CFR 603.5(d), with safeguards and agreement requirements in 20 CFR 603.9 and 603.10.
- Lag
- EDD says wage abstracts are usually five months behind; a standard abstract covers up to five quarters.
- Cost
- Posted schedule: $1,500 administrative fee; $36 per quarter per SAFE account; $0.00121 per SSN per product; custom work additional. The schedule is labeled effective January 2023.
- Who may request
- Authorized third parties, including a nonprofit with sufficient authorization or statutory authority; not nonprofits automatically.
- WA: employment and quarterly earnings Held by Employment Security Department.
- Rule
- 20 CFR 603.5(d)-(f): informed-consent, public-official, or authorized contractor/agent route, as applicable; ESD eligibility and security review and contract.
- Lag
- State-specific event-to-delivery lag NR. Quarterly records; do not treat application acknowledgment as data availability.
- Cost
- Fixed tariff NR; federal 20 CFR 603.8 generally requires recovery of disclosure costs.
- Who may request
- Published categories include public officials, WorkSource partners, government-hired researchers, and private organizations or individuals using an informed-consent release.
- National: SCSEP post-exit employment and earnings Held by State wage agencies; Kansas Department of Commerce and DOL through CRIS/SWIS.
- Rule
- SCSEP performance measures, 20 CFR 641.700-.710. CRIS matches national-program participant records against interstate wage data and returns aggregate employment outcomes through ETA.
- Lag
- CRIS-specific delivery lag NR. Measures concern employment in the second and fourth quarters after exit and second-quarter earnings; the observation period itself must elapse.
- Cost
- Per-request charge NR.
- Who may request
- Participating national-program grantees, including qualifying nonprofit SCSEP grantees; not arbitrary nonprofits.
Caveats
- WIOA wage matching is a state obligation, not a subrecipient right. WIOA wage matching is a state performance obligation, not a blanket right for every subrecipient to receive raw wages. Under 20 CFR 677.175, states use quarterly wage records and facilitate matching consistent with law. DOL's reporting guidance anticipates roughly one to two quarters of wage-data availability delay: fourth-quarter-after-exit outcomes therefore require substantially more than a year from exit. UI records also omit some employment, including self-employment; supplemental evidence may be necessary. Source
Agreement templates
- DOL State Wage Interchange System (SWIS) data sharing agreement The UI wage-record interchange agreement (restated January 2026) between participating state workforce agencies.
- Instrument
- YouthBuild FOA-ETA-26-38, Section III.C Expected Performance Outcomes
- Target
- Funder sets the target
- National target
- 70%