38 U.S.C. § 4115 — Longitudinal study of job counseling, training, and placement service for veterans
submitted 10 years ago by Pub. L. 114-315 to r/title-38-VETERANS-BENEFITS · 586 words · no verdicts yet
The Secretary must fund a five-year-or-longer study comparing outcomes for veterans who received intensive services, other services, or no services. Annual reports must give specified employment, income, service, and demographic information.
(a)(1) The Secretary* must contract with a nongovernment entity for a longitudinal study of a statistically valid sample from each group in paragraph (2), studying each group for at least five years. (2) The groups are (A) veterans receiving intensive services; (B) veterans receiving other services under this chapter but not intensive services; and (C) veterans who neither sought nor received chapter services. (3) For each participant, the study must collect (A) average months of active duty*; (B) disability ratings; (C) unemployment benefits; (D) average months employed during the report year; (E) average annual starting and ending salaries for participants employed that year; (F) average annual income; (G) average household income that year; (H) percentage owning a principal residence; (I) employment status; (J) for a person receiving services, whether the person believes a disabled veterans’ outreach specialist or local veterans’ employment representative helped obtain employment; (K) if so, whether the person kept the job at least one year and whether the service helped obtain higher pay; (L) discharge or release* conditions; (M) use of educational assistance under this title; (N) participation in a chapter 31 rehabilitation program; (O) contact with a One-Stop Career Center employee at a Transition GPS workshop or job fair; (P) demographic information; and (Q) other information the Secretary considers appropriate. (b)(1) By July 1 of each study year, the Secretary must report the prior year’s outcomes to the Senate and House Veterans’ Affairs Committees. (2) Each report must include, for job fairs attended by One-Stop employees who contacted veterans, (A)(i) the number of those job fairs and (ii) the number of veterans contacted at each, and (B) information the Secretary considers necessary to determine long-term outcomes for the three groups.
The Secretary* shall enter into a contract with a non-government entity to conduct a longitudinal study of a statistically valid sample of each of the groups of individuals described in paragraph (2). The contract shall provide for the study of each such group over a period of at least 5 years.
The groups of individuals described in this paragraph are the following:
Veterans who have received intensive services.
Veterans who did not receive intensive services but who otherwise received services under this chapter.
Veterans who did not seek or receive services under this chapter.
The study required by this subsection shall include the collection of the following information for each individual who participates in the study:
The average number of months such individual served on active duty*.
The disability ratings of such individual.
Any unemployment benefits received by such individual.
The average number of months such individual was employed during the year covered by the report.
The average annual starting and ending salaries of any such individual who was employed during the year covered by the report.
The average annual income of such individual.
The average total household income of such individual for the year covered by the report.
The percentage of such individuals who own their principal residences.
The employment status of such individual.
In the case of such an individual who received services under this chapter, whether the individual believes that any service provided by a disabled veterans’ outreach program specialist or local veterans’ employment representative helped the individual to become employed.
In the case of such an individual who believes such a service helped the individual to become employed, whether—
the individual retained the position of employment for a period of 1 year or longer; and
the individual believes such a service helped the individual to secure a higher wage or salary.
The conditions under which such individual was discharged or released from the Armed Forces*.
Whether such individual has used any educational assistance to which the individual is entitled under this title.
Whether such individual has participated in a rehabilitation program under chapter 31 of this title.
Whether such individual had contact with a One-Stop Career Center employee while attending a workshop or job fair under the Transition GPS Program of the Department* of Defense.
Demographic information about such individual.
Such other information as the Secretary determines appropriate.
By not later than July 1 of each year covered by the study required under subsection (a), the Secretary shall submit to the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs of the Senate and the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs of the House of Representatives a report on the outcomes of the study during the preceding year.
The Secretary shall include in each report submitted under paragraph (1) the following:
Information with respect to job fairs attended by One-Stop Career Center employees at which the employees had contact with a veteran*, including, for the year preceding the year in which the report is submitted, the following:
The number of job fairs attended by One-Stop Career Center employees at which the employees had contact with a veteran.
The number of veterans contacted at each such job fair.
Such information as the Secretary determines is necessary to determine the long-term outcomes of the individuals in the groups described in subsection (a)(2).
Source credit: (Added Pub. L. 114–315, title V, § 502(a), Dec. 16, 2016, 130 Stat. 1566.)
- 2016Enacted · Pub. L. 114-315 · 130 Stat. 1566
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