Controls Over Vocational Rehabilitation Training Services Need Improvement: Rehabilitation Services Administration, Department of Health, Education and Welfare : Report to the Congress

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General Accounting Office, 1977 - People with disabilities - 58 pages

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Page 2 - These funds were in addition to the $57 million annually appropriated under previously existing laws and to appropriations for residential schools and work-study programs. The funds under the new act were allocated among the states on the basis of population and per capita income. Each state...
Page 58 - Administration was transferred from the Social and Rehabilitation Service to the Office of Human Development.
Page 42 - Rates of payment. The State plan shall provide for the establishment in writing of policies governing rates of payment for all purchased vocational rehabilitation services, and provide that the State agency will maintain in accessible form information as to current rates of payment. The State plan shall further provide that individual or other vendors providing any services authorized by the State agency shall agree not to make any charge to or accept any payment from the...
Page 11 - About $l,290 was paid for training a student for 33 weeks to be a counter helper at a restaurant. The student had already worked at this position for l0 months.
Page 42 - ... smaller business firms from the 1972 Census of Business. If the Bureau follows through on this promise, it could result in a savings of some $50 million to the small business community. As I have said, this is a beginning. We would like to see future efforts aimed at reducing report-ing requirements of other Federal agencies such as the Department of" Labor and the Social Security Administration, both in type and frequency.
Page 34 - HEW contracted with the Urban Institute to identify and evaluate the administrative procedures and policies of State agencies in the use of similar benefits.
Page 19 - RSA does not require regional offices to periodically review providers of training services to determine how well they are meeting the needs of the program.
Page 42 - Training grants are awarded to facilities in an effort to increase the number of personnel trained in providing services to the handicapped.

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