(a) The Vocational Rehabilitation Division (VRD) determines a customer to have achieved an employment outcome when the following requirements are met:
  (1) the provision of services under the customer's individualized plan for employment (IPE) has contributed to the achievement of the employment outcome;
  (2) the customer has achieved the employment outcome that is described in the customer's IPE and that is consistent with the customer's strengths, resources, priorities, concerns, abilities, capabilities, interests, and informed choice;
  (3) the employment outcome is in an integrated setting;
  (4) the customer has maintained the employment outcome for at least 90 days; and
  (5) the customer and the vocational rehabilitation counselor consider the employment outcome to be satisfactory and agree that the customer is performing well on the job.
(b) After a customer has been determined to have achieved an employment outcome, VRD informs the customer of the availability of post-employment services as required to maintain, regain, or advance in employment.

Source Note: The provisions of this §856.53 adopted to be effective December 10, 2012, 37 TexReg 9651; duplicated effective September 1, 2016, as published in the Texas Register September 2, 2016, 41 TexReg 6773; amended to be effective November 8, 2017, 42 TexReg 6195; amended to be effective December 26, 2022, 47 TexReg 8740