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Assistive Technology Alternative Financing Program

The program awards Federal matching funds to encourage States to provide loans to individuals with disabilities to purchase assistive technology devices and services. This programs makes assistive technology devices and services more available and accessible to individuals with disabilities and their families.

Rating

What This Rating Means

NOT PERFORMING
Results Not Demonstrated

A rating of Results Not Demonstrated (RND) indicates that a program has not been able to develop acceptable performance goals or collect data to determine whether it is performing.
  • The program has not established long-term outcome measures or goals to analyze program performance.
  • The program has collected follow-up data on individuals receiving loans from AFPs, but has not conducted an independent evaluation of the AFP to determine if the program achieved its goals.
  • The program was not timely in reporting to Congress and did not make its reports available to the public in a meaningful manner.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:

  • Working with Congress to terminate this unauthorized program.
  • Conducting a third-party evaluation of program performance.
  • Analyzing State-reported program data and findings from an independent evaluation to improve program performance and provide technical assistance.

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