Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 32 - Rehabilitation And Disabilities › Part 11 - Vocational Rehabilitation Regulations › Part 361 - STATE VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION SERVICES PROGRAM › Subpart E - Evaluation Standards and Performance Indicators › Section 32-11-361-E-361.81 - Applicable definitions

Current through June 25, 2024
In addition to those definitions in Sec. 361.5(b), the following definitions apply to this subpart:
Average hourly earnings means the average per hour earnings in the week prior to exiting the vocational rehabilitation (VR) program of an eligible individual who has achieved a competitive employment outcome.
Business Enterprise Program (BEP) means an employment outcome in which an individual with a significant disability operates a vending facility or other small business under the management and supervision of a designated State unit (DSU). This term includes home industry, farming, and other enterprises.
Exit the VR program means that a DSU has closed the individual's record of VR services in one of the following categories:
(1) Ineligible for VR services.
(2) Received services under an individualized
				  plan for employment (IPE) and achieved an employment outcome.
(3) Received services under an IPE but did
				  not achieve an employment outcome.
(4) Eligible for VR services but did not
				  receive services under an IPE.
General or combined DSU means a DSU that does not serve
					 exclusively individuals with visual impairments or blindness.
Individuals from a minority background means individuals
					 who report their race and ethnicity in any of the following categories:
					 American Indian or Alaska Native, Asian, Black or African American, Native
					 Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, or Hispanic or Latino.
Minimum wage means the higher of the rate specified in
					 section 6(a)(1) of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938,
					  29 U.S.C.
					 206(a)(1), (i.e., the
					 Federal minimum wage) or applicable State minimum wage law.
Non-minority individuals means individuals who report
					 themselves exclusively as White, non-Hispanic.
Performance period is the reporting period during which a
					 DSU's performance is measured. For Evaluation Standards 1 and 2, performance
					 data must be aggregated and reported for each fiscal year beginning with fiscal
					 year 1999. However, DSUs that exclusively serve individuals with visual
					 impairments or blindness must report each year the aggregated data for the 2
					 previous years for Performance Indicators 1.1 through 1.6; the second year must
					 coincide with the performance period for general or combined DSUs.
Primary indicators means Performance Indicators 1.3, 1.4,
					 and 1.5, which are specifically designed to measure--
(1) The achievement of competitive, self-, or
				  BEP employment with earnings equivalent to the minimum wage or higher,
				  particularly by individuals with significant disabilities; and
(2) The ratio between the average hourly
				  earnings of individuals who exit the VR program in competitive, self-, or BEP
				  employment with earnings equivalent to the minimum wage or higher and the
				  State's average hourly earnings for all employed individuals.
RSA-911 means the Case Service Report that is submitted
					 annually by a DSU as approved by the Office of Management and Budget
					 (OMB).
Self-employment means an employment outcome in which the
					 individual works for profit or fee in his or her own business, farm, shop, or
					 office, including sharecroppers.
Service rate means the result obtained by dividing the
					 number of individuals who exit the VR program after receiving one or more
					 services under an IPE during any reporting period by the total number of
					 individuals who exit the VR program (as defined in this section) during that
					 reporting period.
State's average hourly earnings means the average hourly
					 earnings of all persons in the State in which the DSU is located.