[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 38, Volume 2]
[Revised as of July 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 38CFR21.70]

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            TITLE 38--PENSIONS, BONUSES, AND VETERANS' RELIEF
 
          CHAPTER I--DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS (CONTINUED)
 
PART 21--VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION AND EDUCATION--Table of Contents
 
     Subpart A--Vocational Rehabilitation Under 38 U.S.C. Chapter 31
 
Sec. 21.70  Vocational rehabilitation.

    (a) General. The goal of a vocational rehabilitation program is to:
    (1) Evaluate and improve the veteran's ability to achieve a 
vocational goal;
    (2) Provide services needed to qualify for suitable employment;
    (3) Enable the veteran to achieve maximum independence in daily 
living;
    (4) Enable the veteran to become employed in a suitable occupation 
and to maintain suitable employment.
    (b) Vocational rehabilitation program. This term includes:
    (1) The services that are needed for the accomplishment of the 
purposes of Chapter 31, including such counseling, diagnostic, medical, 
social, psychological, independent living, economic, educational, 
vocational, and employment services as are determined by the Department 
of Veterans Affairs to be needed;
    (i) In the case of a veteran for whom the achievement of a 
vocational goal has not been found to be currently infeasible such 
needed services include:
    (A) Determining whether a vocational goal is reasonably feasible;
    (B) Improving the veteran's potential to participate in a program of 
services designed to achieve a vocational goal;
    (C) Enabling the veteran to achieve maximum independence in daily 
living;
    (ii) In the case of a veteran for whom achievement of a vocational 
goal is feasible, such needed services include assisting the veteran to 
become, to the maximum extent feasible, employable and to obtain and 
maintain suitable employment;
    (2) The term also includes the monetary assistance authorized by 
Chapter 31 for a veteran receiving any of the services described in this 
paragraph.


(Authority: 38 U.S.C. 3101(9); Pub. L. 99-576)

    (c) Duration of vocational rehabilitation. Decisions on the duration 
of periods for attaining the goals named in paragraph (a) of this 
section are made in the course of development and approval of the 
Individualized Written Rehabilitation Plan. However, the duration of a 
vocational rehabilitation program may not exceed 48 months (or its 
equivalent when pursued on a part-time basis), except as provided in 
Sec. 21.78.


(Authority: 38 U.S.C. 3695, 3105)

[49 FR 40814, Oct. 18, 1984; 50 FR 9622, Mar. 11, 1985, as amended at 53 
FR 50957, Dec. 19, 1988]

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