According to the Government Accountability Office (GAO), “little is known” about whether nearly three dozen federal jobs programs for the disabled are actually helping people find work, including programs designed to help disabled veterans.
“Little is known about the effectiveness of the programs we identified as supporting employment for people with disabilities because only about one-quarter reported having a performance review,” the GAO said in its June 29 report on the programs, which is entitled Employment for People With Disabilities: Little Is Known About the Effectiveness of Fragmented and Overlapping Programs.
The GAO surveyed 45 federal programs for fiscal year 2010 that aim to provide some form of employment support for people with disabilities, discovering that few of the programs actually track their results. The programs were administered by nine federal agencies and even more congressional committees, reported the GAO, and for that fiscal year they were obligated to pay out $4.1 billion in services.
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