---
kind: "section"
citation: "29 U.S.C. § 796j"
title: "29"
title_heading: "Labor"
number: "796j"
heading: "“Older individual who is blind” defined"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/29/796j"
units:
  - "Chapter 16 — Vocational Rehabilitation and Other Rehabilitation Services"
  - "Subchapter VII — Independent Living Services and Centers for Independent Living"
  - "Part B — Independent Living Services for Older Individuals Who Are Blind"
---

# §796j. “Older individual who is blind” defined


For purposes of this part, the term “older [individual](/usc/29/705.md?p=22) who is blind” means an [individual](/usc/29/705.md?p=22) age 55 or older whose significant visual [impairment](/usc/29/705.md?p=20-E-i) makes competitive employment extremely difficult to attain but for whom independent living goals are feasible.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 93–112, title VII, § 751, as added Pub. L. 105–220, title IV, § 410, Aug. 7, 1998, 112 Stat. 1237.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 796j, Pub. L. 93–112, title VII, § 751, as added Pub. L. 102–569, title VII, § 703(a), Oct. 29, 1992, 106 Stat. 4464, defined “older individual who is blind”, prior to the general amendment of this subchapter by Pub. L. 105–220.