---
kind: "section"
citation: "38 C.F.R. § 21.194"
title: "38"
number: "21.194"
heading: "“Employment services” status."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/38/21.194"
---

# §21.194. “Employment services” status.

- (a) **Purpose.** The status employment services serves to:
  - (1) Identify veterans who are being furnished employment services; and
  - (2) **Assure that these veterans receive necessary services in a timely manner.**
- (b) **Assignment to employment services—** status. A veteran's case may be assigned or reassigned to employment services status under the provisions of §§ [21.84](/cfr/38/21.84.md), [21.88](/cfr/38/21.88.md), and [21.94](/cfr/38/21.94.md).
- (c) **Continuation in employment services—** status. A case will remain in employment services status for the period specified in the IEAP, subject to the limitations specified in [paragraph (d)](#d) of this section.
- (d) **Termination of employment services—** status. The veteran will continue in employment services status until the earliest of the following events occurs:
  - (1) He or she is determined to be rehabilitated under the provisions of [§ 21.283](/cfr/38/21.283.md); or
  - (2) **He or she is—**
    - (i) Employed for at least 60 days in employment that does not meet the criteria for rehabilitation contained in [§ 21.283](/cfr/38/21.283.md), if the veteran intends to maintain this employment and declines further assistance; and
    - (ii) **Adjusted to the duties and responsibilities of the job.**
  - (3) Either the veteran or VA interrupts the employment services program;
  - (4) Either the veteran or VA discontinues the employment services program;
  - (5) He or she reaches the end of the period for which employment services have been authorized and there is no basis for extension; or
  - (6) Service-connection for the veteran's service-connected disability is severed or he or she otherwise ceases to be eligible.

## Notes

### Amendments

[49 FR 40814, Oct. 18, 1984, as amended at 58 FR 68768, Dec. 29, 1993; 84 FR 193, Jan. 18, 2019]

### Authority

Authority: 38 U.S.C. 501(a), chs. 18, 31, and as noted in specific sections.

### Source

Source: 49 FR 40814, Oct. 18, 1984, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[49 FR 40814, Oct. 18, 1984, as amended at 58 FR 68768, Dec. 29, 1993; 84 FR 193, Jan. 18, 2019]