Education Department seeks comments on RSA training program payback data system
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The notice updates an existing federal information collection for the Rehabilitation Services Administration’s Rehabilitation Long-Term Training program. The system tracks scholarship recipients, their required service work, employer verification, and any money owed if they do not complete their service obligation. Academic grantees, scholars, employers, rehabilitation agencies, and some state, local, and tribal government entities may need to submit or verify data through the Payback Information Management System. Comments are due by June 10, 2026, especially on whether the collection is necessary, accurate, clear, and not more burdensome than needed.
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Key Changes
- Revises an existing Department of Education information collection for the RSA Rehabilitation Long-Term Training program
- Continues use of PIMS to track scholar service obligations, employer verification, and payback amounts
- Invites public comments on burden estimates, usefulness, clarity, and ways to reduce reporting burden
Obligations
What this law requires
Academic grantees must track the education status of every scholar who receives RLTT scholarship financial support.
Scholars receiving RLTT scholarship assistance must work in the public rehabilitation program, a state vocational rehabilitation agency, or an agency or organization with a service arrangement with a state vocational rehabilitation agency, in qualified employment fields.
Scholars must submit employment data through the Payback Information Management System to document fulfillment of their RLTT service obligation.
Employers must verify whether a scholar was employed and whether the position qualifies for fulfillment of the scholar’s RLTT service obligation.
RLTT grantees must verify whether a scholar’s employment and position are eligible to satisfy the scholar’s service obligation.