payments to states

payments to states Sec. 111. (a) From each State’s allotment under this part for any fiscal year (including any additional payment to it under section 110 (b)), the Secretary shall pay to such State an amount equal to the Federal share of the cost of vocational rehabilitation services under the plan for such State approved under section 101, including expenditures for the administration of the State plan, except that the total of such payments to such State for such fiscal year may not exceed its allotment under subsection (a) (and its additional payment under subsection (b), if any) of section 110 for such year and such payments shall not be made in an amount which would result in a violation of the provisions of the State plan required by clause. (17) of section 101(a), and except that the amount otherwise payable to such State for such year under this section shall be reduced by the amount (if any) by which expenditures from non-Federal sources during such year under this title are less than expenditures under the State plan for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1972, under the Vocational Rehabilitation Act. (b) The method of computing and paying amounts pursuant to subsection (a) shall be as follows: (1) The Secretary shall, prior to the beginning of each calendar quarter or other period prescribed by him, estimate the amount to be paid to each State under the provisions of such subsection for such period, such estimate to be based on such records of the State and information furnished by it, and such other investigation, as the Secretary may find necessary. (2) The Secretary shall pay, from the allotment available therefor, the amount so estimated by him for such period, reduced or increased, as the case may be, by any sum (not previously adjusted under this paragraph) by which he finds that his estimate of the amount to be paid the State, for any prior period under such subsection was greater or less than the amount which should have been paid to the State for such prior period under such subsection. Such payment shall be made prior to audit or settlement by the General Accounting Office, shall be made through the disbursing facilities of the Treasury Department, and shall be made in such installments as the Secretary may determine.