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State's reimbursement rates to sheltered workshops to increase
Missouri's sheltered workshops are getting a pay raise from the state.
Under a 2007 law, the state's reimbursement rate to sheltered workshops rose by $5 recently to $90 per worker each week. Texas County's operation, Opportunity Sheltered Industries, is in the Houston Industrial Park.
The rate is scheduled to go up again next summer as the final part of a four-year increase.
About 5,600 mentally disabled Missourians are employed in dozens of sheltered workshops around the state. They're paid below minimum wage to perform basic tasks such as shredding documents or packaging products for other companies.
The state's higher reimbursement rate is paid to the workshop operation. It does not necessarily mean workers will receive a similarly sized pay raise.
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