The Act also permits the employment of certain individuals at wage rates below the statutory minimum wage of $7.25/hour under certificates issued by the Department of Labor:

• Student learners (vocational education students);
• Full‑time students in retail or service establishments, agriculture, or institutions of higher education; and
• Individuals whose earning or productive capacities for the work to be performed are impaired by physical or mental disabilities, including those related to age or injury.

-All workers as descrobed above may be paid $4.25/hour. If you are a person with a disability working forty hours a week you would net. $8,160 in one year. Its hard enough to have a disability let alone net being able to make a decent living, how insulting and demoralizing.