Part 641 — Provisions Governing the Senior Community Service Employment Program
Subpart A — Purpose and Definitions
Subpart B — Coordination With the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act
- § 641.200— What is the relationship between the SCSEP and the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act?
- § 641.210— What services, in addition to the applicable career services, must SCSEP grantees and sub-recipients provide through the One-Stop delivery system?
- § 641.220— 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?
- § 641.230— 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?
- § 641.240— Are SCSEP participants eligible for career and training services under title I of WIOA?
Subpart C — The State Plan
- § 641.300— What is the State Plan?
- § 641.302— What is a four-year strategy?
- § 641.305— Who is responsible for developing and submitting the State Plan?
- § 641.310— May the Governor, or the highest government official, delegate responsibility for developing and submitting the State Plan?
- § 641.315— Who participates in developing the State Plan?
- § 641.320— Must all national grantees operating within a State participate in the State planning process?
- § 641.325— What information must be provided in the State Plan?
- § 641.330— How should the State Plan reflect community service needs?
- § 641.335— How should the Governor, or the highest government official, address the coordination of SCSEP services with activities funded under title I of WIOA?
- § 641.340— How often must the Governor, or the highest government official, update the State Plan?
- § 641.345— What are the requirements for modifying the State Plan?
- § 641.350— How should public comments be solicited and collected?
- § 641.355— Who may comment on the State Plan?
- § 641.360— How does the State Plan relate to the equitable distribution report?
- § 641.365— How must the equitable distribution provisions be reconciled with the provision that disruptions to current participants should be avoided?
- § 641.370— May a State incorporate its 4-year plan for SCSEP into a Combined State Plan under WIOA?
Subpart D — Grant Application and Responsibility Review Requirements for State and National SCSEP Grants
- § 641.400— What entities are eligible to apply to the Department for funds to administer SCSEP projects?
- § 641.410— How does an eligible entity apply?
- § 641.420— What are the eligibility criteria that each applicant must meet?
- § 641.430— What are the responsibility conditions that an applicant must meet?
- § 641.440— Are there responsibility conditions that alone will disqualify an applicant?
- § 641.450— How will the Department examine the responsibility of eligible entities?
- § 641.460— What factors will the Department consider in selecting national grantees?
- § 641.465— Under what circumstances may the Department reject an application?
- § 641.470— What happens if an applicant's application is rejected?
- § 641.480— May the Governor, or the highest government official, make recommendations to the Department on national grant applications?
- § 641.490— When will the Department compete SCSEP grant awards?
- § 641.495— When must a State compete its SCSEP award?
Subpart E — Services to Participants
- § 641.500— Who is eligible to participate in the SCSEP?
- § 641.505— When is eligibility determined?
- § 641.507— How is applicant income computed?
- § 641.510— What types of income are included and excluded for participant eligibility determinations?
- § 641.512— May grantees and sub-recipients enroll otherwise eligible job ready individuals and place them directly into unsubsidized employment?
- § 641.515— How must grantees and sub-recipients recruit and select eligible individuals for participation in the SCSEP?
- § 641.520— Are there any priorities that grantees and sub-recipients must use in selecting eligible individuals for participation in the Senior Community Service Employment Program?
- § 641.535— What services must grantees and sub-recipients provide to participants?
- § 641.540— What types of training may grantees and sub-recipients provide to SCSEP participants in addition to the training received at a community service assignment?
- § 641.545— What supportive services may grantees and sub-recipients provide to participants?
- § 641.550— What responsibility do grantees and sub-recipients have to place participants in unsubsidized employment?
- § 641.565— What policies govern the provision of wages and benefits to participants?
- § 641.570— Is there a time limit for participation in the program?
- § 641.575— May a grantee or sub-recipient establish a limit on the amount of time its participants may spend at a host agency?
- § 641.577— Is there a limit on community service assignment hours?
- § 641.580— Under what circumstances may a grantee or sub-recipient terminate a participant?
- § 641.585— What is the employment status of SCSEP participants?
Subpart F — Pilot, Demonstration, and Evaluation Projects
- § 641.600— What is the purpose of the pilot, demonstration, and evaluation projects authorized under § 502(e) of the OAA?
- § 641.610— How are pilot, demonstration, and evaluation projects administered?
- § 641.620— How may an organization apply for pilot, demonstration, and evaluation project funding?
- § 641.630— What pilot, demonstration, and evaluation project activities are allowable under the Older Americans Act?
- § 641.640— Should pilot, demonstration, and evaluation project entities coordinate with SCSEP grantees and sub-recipients, including area agencies on aging?
Subpart G — Performance Accountability
- § 641.700— What performance measures apply to Senior Community Service Employment Program grantees?
- § 641.710— How are the performance measures defined?
- § 641.720— How will the Department and grantees initially determine and then adjust expected levels of the core performance measures?
- § 641.730— How will the Department assist grantees in the transition to the new core performance measures?
- § 641.740— 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?
- § 641.750— Will there be performance-related incentives?
Subpart H — Administrative Requirements
- § 641.800— What uniform administrative requirements apply to the use of SCSEP funds?
- § 641.803— What is program income?
- § 641.806— How must SCSEP program income be used?
- § 641.809— What non-Federal share (matching) requirements apply to the use of SCSEP funds?
- § 641.812— What is the period of availability of SCSEP funds?
- § 641.815— May the period of availability be extended?
- § 641.821— What audit requirements apply to the use of SCSEP funds?
- § 641.824— What lobbying requirements apply to the use of SCSEP funds?
- § 641.827— What general nondiscrimination requirements apply to the use of SCSEP funds?
- § 641.833— What policies govern political patronage?
- § 641.836— What policies govern political activities?
- § 641.839— What policies govern union organizing activities?
- § 641.841— What policies govern nepotism?
- § 641.844— What maintenance of effort requirements apply to the use of SCSEP funds?
- § 641.847— What uniform allowable cost requirements apply to the use of SCSEP funds?
- § 641.850— Are there other specific allowable and unallowable cost requirements for the SCSEP?
- § 641.853— How are costs classified?
- § 641.856— What functions and activities constitute administrative costs?
- § 641.859— What other special rules govern the classification of costs as administrative costs or programmatic activity costs?
- § 641.861— Must SCSEP recipients provide funding for the administrative costs of sub-recipients?
- § 641.864— What functions and activities constitute programmatic activity costs?
- § 641.867— What are the limitations on the amount of SCSEP administrative costs?
- § 641.870— Under what circumstances may the administrative cost limitation be increased?
- § 641.873— What minimum expenditure levels are required for participant wages and benefits?
- § 641.874— What conditions apply to a SCSEP grantee request to use additional funds for training and supportive service costs?
- § 641.876— How will compliance with cost limitations and minimum expenditure levels be determined?
- § 641.879— What are the financial and performance reporting requirements for recipients?
- § 641.881— What are the SCSEP recipient's responsibilities relating to awards to sub-recipients?
- § 641.884— What are the grant closeout procedures?
Subpart I — Grievance Procedures and Appeals Process
- § 641.900— What appeal process is available to an applicant that does not receive a grant?
- § 641.910— What grievance procedures must grantees make available to applicants, employees, and participants?
- § 641.920— What actions of the Department may a grantee appeal and what procedures apply to those appeals?
- § 641.930— Is there an alternative dispute resolution process that may be used in place of an OALJ hearing?