Title 20, Part 641 — Provisions Governing the Senior Community Service Employment Program

What does this part cover?

What is the SCSEP?

What are the purposes of the SCSEP?

What is the scope of this part?

What definitions apply to this part?

What is the relationship between the SCSEP and the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act?

What services, in addition to the applicable career services, must SCSEP grantees and sub-recipients provide through the One-Stop delivery system?

Does title I of WIOA require the SCSEP to use OAA funds for individuals who are not eligible for SCSEP services or for services that are not authorized under the OAA?

Must the individual assessment conducted by the SCSEP grantee or sub-recipient and the assessment performed by the One-Stop delivery system be accepted for use by either entity to determine the individual's need for services in the SCSEP and adult programs under title I, subtitle B of WIOA?

Are SCSEP participants eligible for career and training services under title I of WIOA?

What is the State Plan?

What is a four-year strategy?

Who is responsible for developing and submitting the State Plan?

May the Governor, or the highest government official, delegate responsibility for developing and submitting the State Plan?

Who participates in developing the State Plan?

Must all national grantees operating within a State participate in the State planning process?

What information must be provided in the State Plan?

How should the State Plan reflect community service needs?

How should the Governor, or the highest government official, address the coordination of SCSEP services with activities funded under title I of WIOA?

How often must the Governor, or the highest government official, update the State Plan?

What are the requirements for modifying the State Plan?

How should public comments be solicited and collected?

Who may comment on the State Plan?

How does the State Plan relate to the equitable distribution report?

How must the equitable distribution provisions be reconciled with the provision that disruptions to current participants should be avoided?

May a State incorporate its 4-year plan for SCSEP into a Combined State Plan under WIOA?

What entities are eligible to apply to the Department for funds to administer SCSEP projects?

How does an eligible entity apply?

What are the eligibility criteria that each applicant must meet?

What are the responsibility conditions that an applicant must meet?

Are there responsibility conditions that alone will disqualify an applicant?

How will the Department examine the responsibility of eligible entities?

What factors will the Department consider in selecting national grantees?

Under what circumstances may the Department reject an application?

What happens if an applicant's application is rejected?

May the Governor, or the highest government official, make recommendations to the Department on national grant applications?

When will the Department compete SCSEP grant awards?

When must a State compete its SCSEP award?

Who is eligible to participate in the SCSEP?

When is eligibility determined?

How is applicant income computed?

What types of income are included and excluded for participant eligibility determinations?

May grantees and sub-recipients enroll otherwise eligible job ready individuals and place them directly into unsubsidized employment?

How must grantees and sub-recipients recruit and select eligible individuals for participation in the SCSEP?

Are there any priorities that grantees and sub-recipients must use in selecting eligible individuals for participation in the Senior Community Service Employment Program?

What services must grantees and sub-recipients provide to participants?

What types of training may grantees and sub-recipients provide to SCSEP participants in addition to the training received at a community service assignment?

What supportive services may grantees and sub-recipients provide to participants?

What responsibility do grantees and sub-recipients have to place participants in unsubsidized employment?

What policies govern the provision of wages and benefits to participants?

Is there a time limit for participation in the program?

May a grantee or sub-recipient establish a limit on the amount of time its participants may spend at a host agency?

Is there a limit on community service assignment hours?

Under what circumstances may a grantee or sub-recipient terminate a participant?

What is the employment status of SCSEP participants?

What is the purpose of the pilot, demonstration, and evaluation projects authorized under § 502(e) of the OAA?

How are pilot, demonstration, and evaluation projects administered?

How may an organization apply for pilot, demonstration, and evaluation project funding?

What pilot, demonstration, and evaluation project activities are allowable under the Older Americans Act?

Should pilot, demonstration, and evaluation project entities coordinate with SCSEP grantees and sub-recipients, including area agencies on aging?

What performance measures apply to Senior Community Service Employment Program grantees?

How are the performance measures defined?

How will the Department and grantees initially determine and then adjust expected levels of the core performance measures?

How will the Department assist grantees in the transition to the new core performance measures?

How will the Department determine whether a grantee fails, meets, or exceeds the expected levels of performance and what will be the consequences of failing to meet expected levels of performance?

Will there be performance-related incentives?

What uniform administrative requirements apply to the use of SCSEP funds?

What is program income?

How must SCSEP program income be used?

What non-Federal share (matching) requirements apply to the use of SCSEP funds?

What is the period of availability of SCSEP funds?

May the period of availability be extended?

What audit requirements apply to the use of SCSEP funds?

What lobbying requirements apply to the use of SCSEP funds?

What general nondiscrimination requirements apply to the use of SCSEP funds?

What policies govern political patronage?

What policies govern political activities?

What policies govern union organizing activities?

What policies govern nepotism?

What maintenance of effort requirements apply to the use of SCSEP funds?

What uniform allowable cost requirements apply to the use of SCSEP funds?

Are there other specific allowable and unallowable cost requirements for the SCSEP?

How are costs classified?

What functions and activities constitute administrative costs?

What other special rules govern the classification of costs as administrative costs or programmatic activity costs?

Must SCSEP recipients provide funding for the administrative costs of sub-recipients?

What functions and activities constitute programmatic activity costs?

What are the limitations on the amount of SCSEP administrative costs?

Under what circumstances may the administrative cost limitation be increased?

What minimum expenditure levels are required for participant wages and benefits?

What conditions apply to a SCSEP grantee request to use additional funds for training and supportive service costs?

How will compliance with cost limitations and minimum expenditure levels be determined?

What are the financial and performance reporting requirements for recipients?

What are the SCSEP recipient's responsibilities relating to awards to sub-recipients?

What are the grant closeout procedures?

What appeal process is available to an applicant that does not receive a grant?

What grievance procedures must grantees make available to applicants, employees, and participants?

What actions of the Department may a grantee appeal and what procedures apply to those appeals?

Is there an alternative dispute resolution process that may be used in place of an OALJ hearing?