---
kind: "section"
citation: "29 U.S.C. § 796e–1"
title: "29"
title_heading: "Labor"
number: "796e–1"
heading: "Payments to States from allotments"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/29/796e-1"
units:
  - "Chapter 16 — Vocational Rehabilitation and Other Rehabilitation Services"
  - "Subchapter VII — Independent Living Services and Centers for Independent Living"
  - "Part A — Individuals With Significant Disabilities"
  - "Subpart 2 — independent living services"
---

# §796e–1. Payments to States from allotments

- (a) **Payments—** From the allotment of each [State](/usc/29/705.md?p=34) for a fiscal year under [section 796e of this title](/usc/29/796e.md), the [State](/usc/29/705.md?p=34) shall be paid the [Federal share](/usc/29/705.md?p=14-A) of the expenditures incurred during such year under its [State](/usc/29/705.md?p=34) plan approved under [section 796d–1 of this title](/usc/29/796d–1.md). Such payments may be made (after necessary adjustments on account of previously made overpayments or underpayments) in advance or by way of reimbursement, and in such installments and on such conditions as the [Administrator](/usc/29/796a.md?p=1) may determine.
- (b) **Federal share—**
  - (1) **In general—** The [Federal share](/usc/29/705.md?p=14-A) with respect to any [State](/usc/29/705.md?p=34) for any fiscal year shall be 90 percent of the expenditures incurred by the [State](/usc/29/705.md?p=34) during such year under its [State](/usc/29/705.md?p=34) plan approved under [section 796d–1 of this title](/usc/29/796d–1.md).
  - (2) **Non-Federal share—** The non-[Federal share](/usc/29/705.md?p=14-A) of the cost of any project that receives assistance through an allotment under this subpart may be provided in cash or in kind, fairly evaluated, including plant, equipment, or services.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 93–112, title VII, § 712, as added Pub. L. 105–220, title IV, § 410, Aug. 7, 1998, 112 Stat. 1225; amended Pub. L. 113–128, title IV, § 476(c), July 22, 2014, 128 Stat. 1691.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 796e–1, Pub. L. 93–112, title VII, § 712, as added Pub. L. 102–569, title VII, § 701(2), Oct. 29, 1992, 106 Stat. 4451; amended Pub. L. 103–73, title I, § 114(f), Aug. 11, 1993, 107 Stat. 730, related to payments to States from allotments, prior to the general amendment of this subchapter by Pub. L. 105–220.

### Amendments

2014—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 113–128 substituted “Administrator” for “Commissioner”.