Assistance program
Rehabilitation Services Client Assistance Program
$116.7 Million committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, Education, Department of
- Assistance
- Formula Grants
- CFDA number
- 84.161
- What it does
- To establish and carry out client assistance programs in each State and at the protection and advocacy system serving the American Indian Consortium that: (1) advise and inform clients and client-applicants of available benefits under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (Rehabilitation Act), including pre-employment transitions services for students with disabilities under section 113 and activities carried out under section 511; (2) assist and advocate for clients and client- applicants in their relationships with projects, programs, and services under this Act, including assistance and advocacy in pursuing legal, administrative and other appropriate remedies; (3) inform individuals with disabilities in the State especially those who have traditionally been unserved or underserved by vocational rehabilitation programs of the services and benefits available under the Act and under Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
- Who benefits
- Clients and client-applicants receiving services or interested in seeking assistance under the Rehabilitation Act will benefit from CAP services.
- Who applies
- States (through the Governor) and the protection and advocacy system serving the American Indian Consortium, are eligible for awards. With the exception of the protection and advocacy system serving the American Indian Consortium, the Governor designates a public or private agency to conduct the State's program.
- Authorized by
- Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended
Committed by fiscal year
* FY2026 is year-to-date — the fiscal year is still in progress, so its total is still filling in. The striped band and dashed line mark that provisional stretch.
Top recipients
By dollars committed.
How to read these numbers
- Committed through this program
Money committed under this assistance listing (its CFDA program), counted in the year each action happened.
- How it's paid
Most programs pay out one way — a grant, or a direct payment to individuals; the flow bar only appears when a program genuinely mixes types.
- Some recipients aren't itemized
For entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare, the government reports one aggregate instead of naming tens of millions of people, so the recipient roster isn't part of the public record.
- Awards, counted once
An award count is the number of distinct awards with at least one action that year — each counted once, however many times it was amended.
- The colored bars
Every bar on this page splits by how the money moves:
Direct payments