---
kind: "section"
citation: "38 C.F.R. § 21.326"
title: "38"
number: "21.326"
heading: "Authorization of employment services."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/38/21.326"
---

# §21.326. Authorization of employment services.

- (a) **General.** Authorization of employment services shall be based upon the services identified and goals established in an IEAP (Individualized Employment Assistance Plan) under provisions of [§ 21.88](/cfr/38/21.88.md). The effective dates for the commencement, or termination of such services will be determined under this section.
- (b) **Commencing date.** The commencing date authorizing a period of employment services will be the later of:
  - (1) The date following completion of the period of rehabilitation to the point of employability; or
  - (2) **The date of the original IEAP.**
- (c) **Termination of the authorization of employment services.** Authorization for employment services will be terminated the earliest of:
  - (1) The last day employment services are provided under the terms of an IEAP when employment services are interrupted, discontinued, or the veteran is rehabilitated;
  - (2) The date the authorization is found to be erroneous because of an act of omission or commission by the veteran, or with his or her knowledge;
  - (3) The last day of the month in which severance of service connection becomes final;
  - (4) The day proceding the date of a fraudulent act;
  - (5) The date preceding the commission of a treasonable or subversive act for which the veteran is convicted.

## Notes

### 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.