(a) Vocational rehabilitation services are provided to family members only if without the services the applicant or consumer would be unable to begin or to continue the rehabilitation program, and the consumer's employment would be unnecessarily delayed or could not be achieved.
(b) Only family members whose receipt of services would further the applicant's or consumer's vocational adjustment or rehabilitation may receive services.
(c) Family member, for purposes of receiving vocational rehabilitation services in accordance with this section, means a person:
  (1) who either is a relative or guardian of the applicant or consumer or lives in the same household as the applicant or consumer;
  (2) who has a substantial interest in the well-being of the applicant or consumer; and
  (3) whose receipt of services is necessary to enable the applicant or consumer to achieve an employment outcome.

Source Note: The provisions of this §106.419 adopted to be effective December 10, 2012, 37 TexReg 9644