[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 20, Volume 2]
[Revised as of April 1, 2004]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 20CFR411.355]

[Page 709-710]
 
                      TITLE 20--EMPLOYEES' BENEFITS
 
               CHAPTER III--SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION
 
PART 411_The Ticket to Work and Self-Sufficiency Program--Table of Contents
 
    Subpart F_State Vocational Rehabilitation Agencies' Participation
 
Sec. 411.355  What payment options does a State VR agency have under the 
Ticket to Work program?

    (a) The Ticket to Work program provides different payment options 
that are available to a State VR agency for providing services to 
disabled beneficiaries who have a ticket. A State VR agency participates 
in the program in one of two ways when providing services to a 
particular disabled beneficiary under the program. On a case-by-case 
basis, subject to the limitations in Sec. 411.585, the State VR agency 
may participate either--
    (1) As an employment network (EN); or
    (2) Under the cost reimbursement payment system (see subpart V of 
part 404 and subpart V of part 416 of this chapter).
    (b) When the State VR agency serves a beneficiary with a ticket as 
an EN, the State VR agency will use the EN payment system it has elected 
for this purpose, either the outcome payment system or the outcome-
milestone payment system (described in subpart H of this part). The 
State VR agency will have periodic opportunities to change the payment 
system it uses when serving as an EN.
    (c) The State VR agency may seek payment only under its elected EN

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payment system whenever it serves as an EN. When serving a beneficiary 
who was not issued a ticket, the State VR agency may seek payment only 
under the cost reimbursement payment system.
    (d) A State VR agency can choose to function as an EN or to receive 
payment under the cost reimbursement payment system each time that a 
ticket is assigned or reassigned to it if payment has not previously 
been made with respect to that ticket. If payment has previously been 
made with respect to that ticket, the State VR agency can receive 
payment only under the payment system under which the earlier payment 
was made.