The purposes for which this association has been organized are:
 

A. To foster and promote the identity, integrity, and professionalism of eligibility workers and eligibility work as a separate discipline.

B. To set and maintain standards of professional competency, ethics, and recognition and to produce guides for achieving and maintaining these standards.

C. To promote the integrity of the discipline by sponsoring and encouraging education, both within and without the profession.

D. To promote and protect the interest of the members of the association dealing with other professions and other groups, including employers of the eligibility workers.

E. To provide a state framework, focus and center for state and local organizations of eligibility workers who join as co-members of the association and to maintain contact and liaison with other organizations of allied professions.