Approval of a rehabilitation programApproval of a rehabilitation program

Approval of a rehabilitation program

3.2.1 The Commission may approve a rehabilitation program for a veteran having regard to:

(a) the veteran’s vocational, trade and professional skills, qualifications and experience; and

(b) the kinds of remunerative work which a person with the skills, qualifications and experience referred to in subparagraph (a) might reasonably undertake; and

(c) the veteran’s capacity:

(i) to be retrained to undertake different kinds of remunerative work; or

(ii) following undertaking the program, to continue in the veteran’s current employment on a long-term basis; and

(d) if the veteran is not currently engaged in substantial remunerative work —

(i) the type of remunerative work to which the program is likely to lead; and

(ii) the suitability of the proposed program in assisting the veteran to return to work (which may be a different type of work to that which the veteran previously undertook); and

(e) the degree to which the veterans’ physical or mental impairment has affected the veteran’s capacity to undertake the program; and

(f) the cost of the proposed program; and

(g) the relative merits of any alternative appropriate programs; and

(h) any other relevant matter.