§4115 Longitudinal study of job counseling, training, and placement service for veterans

Summary

The Secretary must hire a private group to do a long-term study that follows a representative sample from three groups of veterans: those who got intensive services, those who got other services under this chapter but not intensive, and those who did not seek or get services under this chapter. The study must track each person for at least 5 years. It must collect things like months of active duty, disability ratings, any unemployment benefits, months worked in a year, starting and ending pay if employed, individual and household income, home ownership, current job status, whether a disabled veterans’ outreach specialist or local veterans’ employment representative helped them get a job and, if so, whether they kept the job at least 1 year or got higher pay, discharge conditions, use of education benefits, participation in vocational rehabilitation under chapter 31, contacts with One-Stop Career Center staff at Transition GPS events, basic demographic details, and any other information the Secretary thinks is useful. By July 1 of each year covered by the study, the Secretary must send a report to the Senate and House Veterans’ Affairs Committees with the study results for the prior year. Each report must include how many job fairs One-Stop Career Center staff attended where they contacted veterans and the number of veterans contacted at each fair for the year before the report, plus any other information needed to show long-term outcomes.