North Carolina Administrative Code › Title 10A - HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES › Chapter 89 - VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION › Subchapter C - PROGRAM RULES › Section .0600 - ORDER OF SELECTION FOR SERVICES › Section 89C .0604 - PROCEDURES

Current through Register Vol. 39, No. 2, July 15, 2024
(a) The Division
				  Director upon determining that the Division does not have sufficient resources
				  to provide services to all eligible individuals shall implement an Order of
				  Selection.
(b) The Division
				  Director shall set the date for statewide implementation of an Order of
				  Selection and provide written notification to Division staff, all cooperative
				  programs and vendors.
(c) Eligible
				  individuals who are already receiving services under an Individualized Plan for
				  Employment (IPE) at the time the order of selection is implemented shall not be
				  subject to the order of selection process. Their rehabilitation programs shall
				  continue until their records of service are closed.
(d) When an Order of Selection is
				  implemented, the Division shall provide written notification to all eligible
				  individuals assigned to a priority category who do not have a signed
				  Individualized Plan for Employment (IPE).
(e) In determining an eligible individual's
				  priority category for order of selection as set out in Rule .0603 of this
				  Section, Division staff shall review existing data regarding the seriousness of
				  limitations in functional capacity areas as related to the individual's
				  disability(ies) and the problems those limitations pose in terms of an
				  employment outcome.
(f) The
				  Division shall serve individuals in Priority Category One first and individuals
				  in the other priority categories in descending order down through Priority
				  Category Six according to the availability of resources. Within each category
				  an individual's rank in that category is determined by the individual's
				  application date. The individual that applies first is served first.
(g) Individuals in applicant status prior to
				  implementation of the order of selection and whose priority category
				  classification is below the categories accepted for services when the
				  individuals are determined eligible shall be placed on a waiting list until
				  their priority category is opened for services.
(h) Individuals determined eligible after the
				  order of selection for services is implemented shall receive services if they
				  are classified in the categories accepted for services or shall be placed on a
				  waiting list if their classification places them in a category not currently
				  being served.
(i) Eligible
				  individuals for whom rehabilitation services have not been planned under an
				  Individualized Plan for Employment prior to the implementation of the order of
				  selection and whose classification is below the categories accepted for service
				  shall be placed on a waiting list.
(j) When the order of selection is
				  implemented, all individuals whose priority category classification places
				  those individuals on a waiting list shall be notified in writing of their
				  status. When services are made available to any category in which individuals
				  are on a waiting list, the Division shall notify individuals in that priority
				  category that their rehabilitation program can be developed and
				  implemented.
(k) When the Division
				  Director has determined that the Division has sufficient resources to serve all
				  eligible individuals, the Division shall provide written notification to all
				  eligible individuals, Division staff, all cooperative programs and vendors on
				  the waiting list, that the implementation of an order of selection has
				  ended.
(l) The Division shall
				  provide services to all priority categories when the implementation of an order
				  of selection has ended.
Authority
					 G.S.
					 143-545A;
					 143-546A;
					 P.L.
					 102-569, s. 101(a)(5)(A);
					 34 C.F.R.
					 361.36;
Eff. October 1,
					 1994;
Amended Eff. July 1, 1998;
Temporary Amendment
					 Eff. January 26, 2003; May 1, 2002;
Amended Eff. August 1,
					 2004;
Pursuant to
					 G.S.
					 150B-21.3A rule is necessary without
					 substantive public interest Eff. March 1,
					 2016.