---
kind: "section"
citation: "20 C.F.R. § 702.501"
title: "20"
number: "702.501"
heading: "Vocational rehabilitation; objective."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/20/702.501"
---

# §702.501. Vocational rehabilitation; objective.


The objective of vocational rehabilitation is the return of permanently disabled persons to gainful employment commensurate with their physical or mental impairments, or both, through a program of reevaluation or redirection of their abilities, or retraining in another occupation, or selective job placement assistance.


## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 301, and 8171 et seq.; 33 U.S.C. 901 et seq.; 42 U.S.C. 1651 et seq.; 43 U.S.C. 1333; 28 U.S.C. 2461 note (Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act of 1990); Pub. L. 114-74 at sec. 701; Reorganization Plan No. 6 of 1950, 15 FR 3174, 64 Stat. 1263; Secretary's Order 10-2009, 74 FR 58834.

### Source

Source: 38 FR 26861, Sept. 26, 1973, unless otherwise noted.