Vocational Rehabilitation Funding Formula

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Download or read book Vocational Rehabilitation Grants to States and Territories written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authorization for the vocational rehabilitation program expired at the end of FY2003; Congress has continued to make appropriations to the Department of Education to fund the program under the provisions of an extension clause in the Rehabilitation Act. [...] While the staff of the vocational rehabilitation agency provides assistance to the client in the preparation of the IEP, it is the client that has the final say on his or her employment goal and the services that he or she would like to be provided with. [...] Section 102(b)(3) of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 specifies that an IEP must include the following items: ! the specific employment outcome chosen by the client; ! the specific vocational rehabilitation services that will be provided to the client; ! the time line for starting services and achieving the employment outcome; ! the specific entity, selected by the client, from which services will b [...] Section 7(14) of the act sets the federal share of vocational rehabilitation funding at 78.7% and requires that states and territories provide the remaining 21.3% of vocational rehabilitation funding.20 Authorization for Federal Funding of Vocational Rehabilitation Section 100(b)(1) of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 authorizes Congress to make appropriations to the Department of Education for the [...] Because this CPI-U report comes out in November, after the beginning of the next federal fiscal year, the appropriation for a given fiscal year is based on the appropriation for the previous fiscal year increased by the change in the CPI-U reported in October of the second previous fiscal year.