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DOCUMENWT RESUME
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Controls over Vocational Rehabilitation Training Services Need
Improvement. HRD-76-167; B-164031(1). May 5, 1977. 58 pp.
Report to the Congress; by Elmer B. Staats, Comptroller General.
Issue Area: Education, Training. and Employment Programs:
Programs for Specific Target Groups (1108).
Contact. Human Resources aid Development Div.
Budget Function: Education, Manpower, and Social Sjrvices:
Training and Employment (504).
Organization Concerned: Rehabilitation Services Administration;
Department of Health, Educaton, and Welfare.
Congressional Relevance: House Committee on Education and Labor;
Senate Cormittee on Human Resources; Congress.
Authority: Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended (29 U.S.C.
701). Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (29 U.S.C.
801). Higher Education Act of 1965, rs amended (P.L.
92-318). S. Rept. 93-318. 45 C.F.R. 8-136i.80.
The vocational rehabilitation program administered by
the Rehabilitation Services Administration is intended to
prepare handicapped persons for gainful employment.
Findings/Conclusions: Although many beneficia. training services
have been provided under this progTam, a lack of adequate
controls over the expenditure of funds has resulted in
questionable program expenditures and instances where clients do
not fully benefit from the training. Recommendations: The
Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare should Airect tie
Commissioner of the Rehabilitation Serv'.ces Administration to
require periodic visits to providers of training and to clients
to review client progress. He should provide policy guidance to
the states to assist them in deciding which costs should be paid
by the State agency, how states can better idenlIfy other
benefits received by clients, and how similar benefits received
by clients can be used to reduce program costs as much as
possible. The Commissioner should: establish, with the Office of
Education, a method of exchanging information on Office of
Education student financial aid for clients of State
rehabilitation agencies; arrange for sore indepth financi.al
reviews of grants awarded to rehabilitational facilities;
require states to maintain information on approved training
providers in the State; and require states to divide the duties
of arranging, paying, and accounting for training services among
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