Vocational Rehabilitation: VA Has Opportunities to Improve Services, but Faces Significant Challenges

Abstract

The Department of Veterans Affairs' Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment (VR and E) program has taken on heightened importance due, in large measure, to the number of servicemembers returning from Afghanistan and Iraq with serious injuries and their need for vocational rehabilitation and employment assistance. This statement draws on over 20 years of GAO's reporting on VA's provision of vocational rehabilitation and employment assistance to American veterans and focuses primarily on the results of two recent GAO reports. The first, issued in June 2004, commented on the report of the VA-sponsored VR and E Task Force, which performed a comprehensive review of VR and E activities and made extensive recommendations that, if implemented, would affect virtually every aspect of VR and E's operations. The second, issued in January 2005, focused on the steps VA has taken and the challenges it faces in providing services to seriously injured veterans returning from Afghanistan and Iraq.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 20, 2005
Accession Number
AD1177150

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  • Cynthia A. Bascetta

Organizations

  • United States Government Accountability Office

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  • Biomedical

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  • Accountability
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  • Congress
  • Control Systems
  • Department Of Defense
  • Department Of Veterans Affairs
  • Education
  • Employment
  • Governments
  • Health Care
  • Health Services
  • House Of Representatives
  • Information Systems
  • Interagency Coordination
  • Medical Personnel
  • Rehabilitation
  • Task Forces
  • Therapy
  • United States
  • United States Government

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