ELIGIBILITY
PAPER TRAIL
STANDARDS
MONEY,MONEY, MONEY $
SERVICES
100
This is an ongoing process where the individual and the counselor work together to gather and evaluate information that will be utilized by the individual to make choices about goals and services that will lead to an employment outcome.
What is informed choice/ informed choice of individuals with disabilities?
100
Where you put client's financial information to determine cost of participation
What is the Financial Participation Form?
100
The cumulative grade point average that a student needs to maintain voc rehab support.
What is 2.0 or C?
100
This is the form required by the U.S. Department of Education, Student Financial Assistance Programs for students requesting financial aid from participating institutions.
What is the FAFSA?
100
Any item, piece of equipment, or product system, whether acquired commercially off the shelf, modified, or customized, that is used to increase, maintain, or improve the functional capabilities of an individual with a disability.
What is assistive technology or assistive technology device?
200
These are services and benefits provided or paid for, in whole or in part, by other Federal, State, or local public agencies, by health insurance, or by employee benefits. They are available to the individual at the time needed to ensure the progress of the individual toward achieving the employment outcome in the individual's individualized plan for employment
What are comparable benefits or comparable services and benefits?
200
Client provides his/her permission and allows access to his/ her information by signing this form.
What is the "Release of Confidential Information" form?
200
Tuition rate limitation if a consumer/ client chooses to attend a private institution within the Washington DC Metropolitan Area.
What is 1x UDC rate?
200
_______ provides grants to students who are residents of the District of Columbia and have graduated from high school or received a GED after 1998. It can cover the difference in cost between in-state and out-of-state tuition at any public institution in the country up to $10,000 per year. It can also be used to pay for up to $2,500 in tuition costs at any local private college or university in D.C., Maryland, or Virginia or any historically black college or university.
What is DC-TAG? (DC Tuition Assistance Grant)
200
This service is provided to allow the individual to go to and from school and always utilizing the most economical means.
What is transportation?
300
The reason why you cannot authorize paid training and it requires to be resolved or obtain a waiver from the Department of Education. Clue: 3 words _______ ________ __________
What is defaulted student loan?
300
This document details the employment goal, objectives, timelines and agreed-upon services that will be provided to the consumer who exercised his/her informed choice with the assistance of the counselor.
What is an IPE?
300
Tuition rate limitation if a consumer chooses to attend a public or private post-secondary institution outside of the Washington DC Metropolitan area even if the program is offered within the area.
What is 3x UDC rate?
300
This is money the U.S. federal government provides for students who need it to pay for college.
What is Pell Grant?
300
RSA does not usually fund this service except under exceptional circumstances namely when: 1. the postsecondary institution requires it and and the requirement is documented by the student handbook or other official school documents annually; 2. it is necessary to accommodate a client's disabilities, as documented ANNUALLY by a professional with expertise in the area of the individual's disability, and the individual is actively engaged in an educational or training program; or 3. it is necessary for the individual receiving services outside of the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Area AND the program is not available within the area.
What is room and board?
400
This is conducted to determine the unique strengths, resources, priorities, concerns, abilities, capabilities, interests and informed choice.
What is a comprehensive assessment?
400
This document is issued to vendors or service providers that serves as a guarantee of payment and without which services cannot be provided
What is an authorization form?
400
Frequency of update for the following: 1. financial participation form; 2. release of confidential information; 3. IPE review; 4. documentation for less than full time load; 5. documentation for requirement of room and board; 5. application for grants.
What is annual update or annually or once a year?
400
This is a type of scholarship that is NOT considered a comparable benefit and should not be included in the computation of RSA contribution. Clue: 3 words ____-_____ _______
What is a merit-based scholarship?
400
You need to submit one of the following documentation to request for this equipment that may be provided if it is necessary to complete training: 1. written verification from chairperson of the relevant department; 2. catalog or syllabus for the course which specifies that the specific equipment are required for ALL students; 3. written documentation from a licensed professional that the eligible individual requires a specific equipment. When an individual provides documentation that this equipment is required to complete training, DC-RSA shall first determine if a comparable equipment is available through a loan program.
What are computers or computer systems?
500
Those who are receiving SSI/ SSDI may be determined __________ ____________ for VR services. Also, they need not be subjected to a financial needs test.
What is presumptively eligible?
500
This is a form in System 7 where you document your interactions, issues, progress of the consumer in the program.
What are case notes?
500
An individual must obtain _______ ________ from RSA for any costs the individual expects RSA to assume. RSA shall not be responsible for the payment of any postsecondary educational or training costs that the individual may incur before receiving RSA's written commitment to fund the costs at postsecondary educational or training institution. (DCMR 122.11)
What is prior approval or prior written approval?
500
(3 words) The following are exempt from this type of test: a. A ward of the District of Columbia Government committed to the jurisdiction of the Child and Family Services Agency, or its successor agency; b. SSI/ SSDI recipient c. A client of the Economic Security Administration (formerly known as Income Maintenance Administration) or; d. An eligible individual receiving another form of public assistance income as defined in the federal Social Security Act of 1935. (e.g. TANF, SNAP, WIC etc.)
What is a financial needs test?
500
Monetary support provided to an individual for expenses that are in excess of the normal expenses of the individual and that are necessitated by the individual's participation in an assessment for determining eligibility and vocational rehabilitation needs or the individual's receipt of vocational rehabilitation services under an individualized plan for employment.
What is maintenance?
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