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Public commenters urge more jobs for blind Texans and ask TWC to review due-process failures; commission agrees to resubmit a contested UI case
Summary
At a Texas Workforce Commission meeting, Jim Meehan of the Austin Lighthouse for the Blind urged expansion of the PPD program and fee-schedule review to sustain services; caller Caleb Jones Timbs urged independent review of a misconduct finding and the commission voted to resubmit case 3934951 for further consideration.
The Texas Workforce Commission (TWC) heard two public comments urging both stronger employment supports for people with visual impairments and a review of procedural fairness in an unemployment-insurance case.
Jim Meehan, president and CEO of the Austin Lighthouse for the Blind, told commissioners the nine Texas lighthouses collectively employ about "1,500 Texans, more than half of whom have a permanent visual difficulty or [are] legally blind," and asked the commission to "support and strengthen" the Purchasing Products and Services for People with Disabilities (PPD) program so the organizations can hire more…
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