Recovery of disabled after trust fund financing of rehabilitation.

Bince 1966 the Social Becurity Administration has reimbursed State vocational rehabilitation UgenCieS for services to certain severely disabled beneficiaries. TAis report presents demographic, disability, and earnings information on diaabledworker benejiciaries w-ho were rehabilitated in fiscal l/ear 1969. About one-third of all rehabilitated beneficiaries left the 8ociul security benefit rolls because of regained capacity to engage in gainful employment. A higher proportion of those with reimbursed services and of thoee who were younger and had higher prediaability earnings left the benefit rolls and returned to work. The number of rehabilitated beneflciariea has increased at a greater rate since the start of the reimbursement program than the rate of other rehabilitated clients.