The appropriations for the fiscal years 1921-24 were made by the Vocational Rehabilitation Act, but the extensions of that Act by amendment provided only authorizations of appropriations. Therefore, beginning with the fiscal year 1925, Congress has made the appropriations annually. From 1925 to 1934 the appropriations were made to the Federal Board for Vocational Education; beginning with the fiscal year 1935, they have been included in the act making appropriations for the Department of the Interior.

TABLE 9.-Federal appropriations for the vocational rehabilitation of the physically disabled, not including the appropriations to the Federal administrative agency, by fiscal years, 1921–38 1

1 Compiled from the United States Statutes at Large. Hawaii participates also in the appropriations for vocational rehabilitation authorized by the Social Security Act.

Although the appropriations for 11 of the years from 1925 to 1938 were not so large as had been authorized, the appropriation act usually stipulated that the apportionment to the States should be computed on the basis stated in the Vocaational Rehabilitation Act (since 1937 on the basis stated in the Social Security Act). The one exception was in 1934, when only $969,000 was appropriated and no proviso was included

in the act with respect to apportionment. The appropriation act provided that for that fiscal year the minimum allotment to any State should be $8,840 instead of $10,000.

Under the Couzens amendment to the Vocational Rehabilitation Act, 17 States released their claims to parts of their allotments of Federal funds for the fiscal year 1938 which they were not prepared to use, amounting to a total of $180,616. (See Table 10.) Most of this amount was allotted to 17 other States which had indicated that they were prepared to use a total of $392,695 above their regular or basic allotments.

TABLE 10.-Distribution of Federal funds to the States, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico for vocational rehabilitation of the physically disabled, year ending June 30, 1938 1

1 Data supplied by the U. S. Office of Education. The basic allotment data are given in Vocational Rehabilitation of the Physically Handicapped, p. 87. The figures used here have not been adjusted for differences due to rounding to dollars.

2 Under the Couzens amendment.

Does not include amounts withheld or overpayments, as follows: New York, $553.29; Ohio, $434.48; Rhode Island, $269.70; Connecticut, $175.35; Nevada, $283.46.

Does not include amounts allotted to Hawaii and Puerto Rico.

Includes amounts allotted to Hawaii and Puerto Rico. Owing to unexpended balances and amounts temporarily withheld the amount payable for the year was $1,652,119.

TABLE 10.-Distribution of Federal funds to the States, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico for vocational rehabilitation of the physically disabled, year ending June 30, 1938-Continued

From the beginning of the program of vocational rehabilitation of the physically disabled under Federal legislation, to June 30, 1937, the expenditure of Federal funds by the States was $12,916,497 and the total reported expenditure of State funds was $15,811,940. (See Table 11.) Not until the year 1930 was substantially the entire Federal appropriation used by the States. Some States had not been cooperating, and a number had not used their entire allotments. The Couzens amendment to the National Vocational Rehabilitation Act made it possible to use a larger part of the Federal appropriations than formerly.

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TABLE 11.-Federal appropriations to the States, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and the District of Columbia and amounts expended from Federal and from State and local funds for the vocational rehabilitation of the physically disabled, by fiscal years, 1921-371

1 Data supplied by the U. S. Office of Education, June 15, 1938. The data include corrections made as a result of final audits; they do not in all cases correspond with data in published reports.

Because of the carry-over of unexpended balances in the States from previous years, the Federal funds expended can exceed the Federal appropriations in a particular year.

3 This amount is not the same as that given in the Advisory Committee on Education, Report of the Committee, p. 158, which was a preliminary figure.

Of the amount expended by the States for vocational rehabilitation during the fiscal year 1937-$3,319,096-46 percent was derived from the Federal Government and 54 percent was from State and local sources. (See Table 12.) The amount expended, exclusive of expenditures amounting to $142,314 not covered by the National Vocational Rehabilitation Act, was distributed by items as follows:

Item

Administration__

Case service.

Training---

Travel of trainees..
Artificial appliances -
Physical examination..
Other expenses--

Amount

$446, 414

692, 823

1, 471, 962

70, 794 454, 019

3, 333

37, 437

TABLE 12.-Amounts expended for vocational rehabilitation by the States, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and the District of Columbia, by source, for the year ending June 30, 1937 1

Data taken from U. S. Office of Education, Vocational Division, Digest of Annual Reports of State Boards for Vocational Education, Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1937 (mimeographed), Table 25. The totals here given have not been adjusted for differences due to rounding to dollars.

This amount is not the same as that given in the Advisory Committee on Education, Report of the Committee, p. 158, which was a preliminary figure.

Matching funds, appropriated by Congress out of District funds, are included with Federal funds.