New Jersey Administrative Code
Title 12 - LABOR AND WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT
Chapter 51 - VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION SERVICES
Subchapter 17 - PAYMENT AND ATTENDANCE POLICY
Section 12:51-17.1 - Procedure

(a) All rehabilitation services shall receive prior written authorization for specific units of service, and payment shall be made only upon the completion of the service and the receipt of required reports. Individual case records shall be maintained for each client and shall contain the appropriate documentation of rehabilitation services, copies of correspondence, invoices, and reports.

(b) The organization should notify the local office and be paid for only the units the client physically attends the program plus any official commemorative holidays occurring during the authorized period of service up to a maximum of 13 days in a calendar year. In those instances where the unit of service is an hourly rate, such as job coaching, only hours actually delivered will be reimbursed.

(c) DVRS reserves the right to terminate any authorization by submitting in writing, such a notification to the organization, giving it five-days notice.

(d) It is the DVRS counselor's responsibility to maintain an awareness of the client's progress in the program and it is the counselor's responsibility to terminate the program in the event of attendance problems severe enough to negate the value of the program.

(e) DVRS is interested in the evaluation of its client's competitive employment. There are not, within the DVRS context, excused absences. Clients whose attendance does not compare favorably with the industrial norms should not be represented as having good attendance.