Technical Bulletin: Vocational Rehabilitation Earnings Alert Report (VEAR) Clarification for State Vocational Rehabilitation (VR) Agencies

MAY 2013

Communication for State Vocational Rehabilitation (VR) Agencies Concerning the April 19 Vocational Rehabilitation Earnings Alert Report (VEAR)

At the request of some VR agencies, the revised VEAR report sent on April 19, 2013, included “cleanup files” for all State VR agencies.

This means the report contained comprehensive data on all beneficiaries reported to the OSM as served by VR. Because of the way we processed the file, it may contain information on individuals you served who are not Social Security beneficiaries. We normally scrub the VEAR report for Supplemental Security Income (SSI) or Social Security Disability Income (SSDI) eligibility and you check “Ticket assignability” before submitting a payment claim based on VEAR data. However, please note that the April file was not scrubbed for SSI or SSDI eligibility. This was unique to April and will not be the case in the future.

Please check the Social Security Number for SSI or SSDI eligibility and assignability when using data from the April VEAR for a payment claim. You can use the "Ticket assignability" option in the Secure Provider Portal (Portal), which will show that the ticket is not assignable for anyone ineligible or whose Ticket isn’t assignable for another reason.

Later in May, the Quarterly Beneficiary Earnings Report (QBER), which has replaced the VEAR, will be updated in the Portal for your convenience. QBER will then contain the comprehensive data on all beneficiaries (i.e. cleanup files), and the data will be scrubbed to report only for folks who were SSI and SSDI beneficiaries during their period of VR.

Let us know if you have any questions.