Employment

Paralyzed Veterans of America supports efforts to remove policy and programmatic barriers that keep people with disabilities from pursuing work that is rewarding and from participating in the American dream.  

Because many Paralyzed Veterans' members receive Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI), Paralyzed Veterans is particularly concerned with work disincentives in the SSDI program and works closely with the Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities (CCD) to address those barriers to economic self-sufficiency.  For more information about CCD, visit www.c-c-d.org.

EEOC Issues Guide for Veterans Employment

http://www.eeoc.gov/eeoc/publications/ada_veterans_employers.cfm 

This guide describes how the Americans with Disabilities Act applies to recruiting, hiring, and accommodating veterans with disabilities, and briefly explains how protections for veterans with disabilities differ under USERRA and the ADA. The guide also provides information on laws and regulations that employers may find helpful if they want to make recruiting and hiring veterans with disabilities a priority.

Paralyzed Veterans of America - Advocacy in Action

• Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities Comments to Notice of Proposed Rulemaking concerning federal contractor obligations to recruit and hire people with disabilities under Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act, Jan 2012
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• Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities letters to chairmen and ranking members of House Ways and Means and Senate Finance Congressional committees urging prompt action to reauthorize two Social Security work incentives programs.
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• Letter submitted by Paralyzed Veterans of America to Senator Bernie Sanders, Member of the Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs regarding the Social Security Protection Act
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• Comments submitted by Paralyzed Veterans of America to the Department of Labor Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) in response to a proposed rule concerning federal contractor obligations to recruit and hire people with disabilities.
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• Comments submitted by Paralyzed Veterans of America to the Department of Labor Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) in response to a proposed rule concerning federal contractor obligations to recruit and hire veterans and veterans with disabilities.
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• The CCD Veterans Task Force was invited to present testimony to a November 16, 2011, EEOC hearing on barriers to employment for veterans and veterans with disabilities.  Paralyzed Veterans of America cochairs the CCD Veterans Task Force.
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 Resources for employment and people with disabilities