The Federal Government will pay up to 90 percent of the August 21. 1967. CC cost of projects for the provision of vocational rehabilitation services to handicapped individuals who are migratory agricultural workers. As a Member from Florida. a State which must use migrants to help harvest our fruit and produce. I am well aware of the special burdens which these people face. Their need for State services is great. and they are the group least likely to receive them. The fate of the migrant struck with disability far from home is especially tragic. Residency requirements for vocational rehabilitation services are clearly outmoded. and this legislation would abolish them by 1969. Disability occurs without warning: it does not wait until the individual has established residency.
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