Rehabilitation Services-vocational Rehabilitation Grants To States, Recovery Act

 

To assist States in operating comprehensive, coordinated, effective, efficient and accountable programs of vocational rehabilitation; to assess, plan, develop, and provide vocational rehabilitation services for individuals with disabilities, consistent with their strengths, resources, priorities, concerns, abilities, and capabilities so they may prepare for and engage in competitive employment.

Deleted 01/15/2013 (Archived.) 84.390 Agency: Department of Education Formula Grants Not Applicable. Rehabilitation Act of 1973, Title I, Parts A and B, Sections 100-111; and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA). State agencies in all States (including territories/possessions) designated as the sole State agency to administer the vocational rehabilitation program may receive funds. In order to be eligible for vocational rehabilitation services, an individual must have a physical and/or mental impairment, which, for such an individual, constitutes or results in a substantial impediment to employment, and requires vocational rehabilitation services to achieve an employment outcome. No Credentials or documentation are required. OMB Circular No. A-87 applies to this program. Preapplication coordination is not applicable. Environmental impact information is not required for this program. This program is eligible for coverage under E.O. 12372, "Intergovernmental Review of Federal Programs." An applicant should consult the office or official designated as the single point of contact in his or her State for more information on the process the State requires to be followed in applying for assistance, if the State has selected the program for review. OMB Circular No. A-102 applies to this program. This program is excluded from coverage under OMB Circular No. A-110. There is no separate application required for States to be eligible to receive funds under the ARRA. State Vocational Rehabilitation (VR) agencies do not need to submit a new or amended State Plan. ARRA grant awards will be made to State VR agencies with an approved FY 2009 State Plan. States are notified of their allotment under the funding formula. Grant awards are issued to State VR agencies and funds are withdrawn under the Electronic Transfer System. Not Applicable. There is no deadline associated with each Stateâ₏™s ARRA grant allocation for the State Vocational Rehabilitation Services program. Funds will be made available to each State agency based on the Stateâ₏™s eligibility determination for FY 2009 Vocational Rehabilitation State Grant funds. Changes to the State Plan and annual updates related to the regular appropriation must be submitted to the Rehabilitation Services Administration (RSA) by July 1 of each year. Not Applicable. Not Applicable. Not Applicable. Federal and State funds are used to cover the costs of providing vocational rehabilitation services which include: assessment, counseling, vocational and other training, job placement, reader services for the blind, interpreter services for the deaf, medical and related services and prosthetic and orthotic devices, rehabilitation technology, transportation to secure vocational rehabilitation services, maintenance during rehabilitation, and other goods and services necessary for an individual with a disability to achieve an employment outcome. Services are provided to families of disabled individuals when such services will contribute substantially to the rehabilitation of such individuals who are being provided vocational rehabilitation services. Funds can also be used to provide Vocational Rehabilitation services for the benefit of groups of individuals with disabilities including the construction and establishment of community programs. Annual and quarterly reports are required. Grantees must report on how ARRA funds under this program are spent. ARRA reporting requirements were included in grant award documents. Annual and quarterly progress reports; annual budget and case service reports; quarterly financial reports. Grantees must report on how ARRA funds under this program are spent. The Rehabilitation Act requires the conduct of annual reviews of periodic on-site monitoring of whether a State VR agency is complying substantially with the provisions of its State plan and with the program's performance indicators established under section 106 of the Act. In accordance with the provisions of OMB Circular No. A-133 (Revised, June 27, 2003), "Audits of States, Local Governments, and Non-Profit Organizations," nonfederal entities that expend financial assistance of $500,000 or more in Federal awards will have a single or a program-specific audit conducted for that year. Nonfederal entities that expend less than $500,000 a year in Federal awards are exempt from Federal audit requirements for that year, except as noted in Circular No. A-133. Conducted by ED Office of Inspector General and by site visits of regional staff. Both are periodic but no set schedule. Case service records for individual consumers. Financial and programmatic records must be kept for a prescribed period of 3 years (34 CFR 80.42). Statutory Formula: Title I, Part A, Subpart 110. Funds are distributed based on population weighted by per capita income. The statistical factors for fund allocation are: per capita income 3-year average by State (Bureau of Economic Analysis estimates) and U.S. total and State population (Annual Population Estimates, Bureau of the Census).
Matching requirements are not applicable to this program.
MOE requirements are not applicable to this program. Funds are available for obligation at the Federal level to State VR agencies until September 30, 2010. State VR agencies must obligate the ARRA funds they receive by September 30, 2011. See the following for information on how assistance is awarded/released: Funds are distributed by electronic transfer. None. Carol Dobak, Department of Education, Rehabilitation Services Administration, 400 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, District of Columbia 20202 Email: carol.dobak@ed.gov Phone: (202) 245-6325. http://www.ed.gov/programs/rsabvrs/index.html 91-0302-0-1-506. (Formula Grants) FY 09 $540,000,000; FY 10 $0; FY 11 $0 - No additional obligations expected for FY 2010 and 2011. The range of ARRA grant awards is expected to be $204,598 to $56,470,213. Vocational Rehabilitation Regulations (34 CFR part 361). Rehabilitation Services Policy Directives and Technical Assistance Circulars. Not Applicable.