e. Records of Center Program – The center workshop and agricultural projects should maintain and preserve service, employment and other operating records in sufficient detail to evaluate the capacities and limitations and his needs in relation thereto, outline his program, chart his progress and record his ultimate disposition. The employment records for each client should show, in addition to identifying information, the kind of work performed, the hours worked (daily and weekly), the amount produced, the rate of pay, the amount earned in cash and otherwise, the date of payment and the period covered. The amount of premium pay for overtime work, cash subsidies or other cash assistance, deductions from wages, etc., should be recorded as separate items. In addition to the above records, which apply to both homebound clients and those working in the workshop, each homebound client (or a person in the home of a homebound client) should maintain a daily record of work performed. In addition to the identifying information, such record should show for each workday the date, the starting and stopping times, the total hours worked, and the units produced. This record should be submitted to the center at stated intervals and should become part of the employment records. All employment records should be preserved by the center for at least such periods as may be required by the Social Welfare Administration. The center project should have adequate accounting, operation, sales and other records essential to the effective management of their responsible management board or committee at least quarterly. Their books should be audited annually be a certified public accountant or government auditor designated for that purpose. Sec. 9. ELIGIBILITY To be eligible for vocational rehabilitation a person must: (a) Be of work age. (b) Have a substantial job handicap in the form of physical or mental impairment. (c) Have a reasonably good chance of becoming employable or of getting more suitable job through rehabilitation services. AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS Section 10. Money to be made available for the purpose of the Act shall be raised by: (a) Authorizing the President of the Philippines to set aside an annual fund raising week to be known as “Aid to the Blind and Handicapped Week.” Money realized from such fund raising campaign shall constitute a trust fund to be known as “Blind and Handicapped Fund” which shall be under the control and administration of the Social Welfare Administrator. (b) Authorizing the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office to hold, coincident with the fund raising week, one special sweepstakes race the whole proceeds of which shall after deducting the payment of prizes and expenses provided in Act Numbered Fortyone hundred thirty, as amended by Commonwealth Act Numbered Five hundred fortysix, be turned over to the Social Welfare Administrator which shall constitute a part of the said Blind and Handicapped Fund. (c) Authorizing the appropriation out of any funds in the National Treasury not otherwise appropriated any such sums as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act. The constitution of the Training Center may be drawn from this allocation. Section 11. DEFINITIONS The following terms as used in this Act have the following meanings: (a) Vocational rehabilitation or rehabilitation services. – Any service necessary to render a disabled individual fit to engage in a remunerative occupation. (b) Blind. – A person having visually acuity not to exceed 20/200 in the better eye with correcting lenses, or visual acuity than 20/200 but with the limitation in the fields of vision such that the widest diameter of the visual fields subtends an angle no greater than twenty degrees. But a person who is blind in one eye only, or who has a visual acuity greater than 20/200 without a field defect shall not be considered blind for the purposes of this Act. (c) Disabled person. – Includes not only the blind but also persons, with substantial job handicap in the form of physical or mental impairment. Section 12. EFFECTIVITY This Act shall take effect upon its approval. Approved: June 19, 1954 Written by dandee · Filed Under