Part 641 - Provisions Governing the Senior Community Service Employment Program  


Subpart A - Purpose and Definitions
§ 641.100 - What does this part cover?
§ 641.101 - Scope and purpose.
§ 641.102 - Definitions.
§ 641.110 - What is the SCSEP?
§ 641.120 - What are the purposes of the SCSEP?
§ 641.130 - What is the scope of this part?
§ 641.140 - What definitions apply to this part?
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?
§ 641.201 - Allotment and allocation of title V funds.
§ 641.202 - Eligibility for title V funds.
§ 641.203 - Soliciting applications for title V funds.
§ 641.204 - Grant application requirements.
§ 641.205 - Responsibility review.
§ 641.206 - Grant application review.
§ 641.207 - Negotiation.
§ 641.208 - Rejection of grant application or project components.
§ 641.209 - Award of funds.
§ 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?
§ 641.301 - General.
§ 641.302 - What is a four-year strategy?
§ 641.303 - Cooperative relationships.
§ 641.304 - Recruitment and selection of enrollees.
§ 641.305 - Who is responsible for developing and submitting the State Plan?
§ 641.306 - Enrollment priorities.
§ 641.307 - [Reserved]
§ 641.308 - Orientation.
§ 641.309 - Assessment and reassessment of enrollees.
§ 641.310 - May the Governor, or the highest government official, delegate responsibility for developing and submitting the State Plan?
§ 641.311 - Enrollee wages and fringe benefits.
§ 641.312 - Enrollee supportive services.
§ 641.313 - Training.
§ 641.314 - Placement into unsubsidized employment.
§ 641.315 - Who participates in developing the State Plan?
§ 641.316 - Individual development plan-related terminations.
§ 641.317 - Status of enrollees.
§ 641.318 - Over-enrollment.
§ 641.319 - [Reserved]
§ 641.320 - Must all national grantees operating within a State participate in the State planning process?
§ 641.321 - Political activities.
§ 641.322 - Unionization.
§ 641.323 - Nepotism.
§ 641.324 - Enrollee and applicant complaint resolution.
§ 641.325 - What information must be provided in the State Plan?
§ 641.326 - Experimental private sector training projects.
§ 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?
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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?
§ 641.401 - General.
§ 641.402 - Administrative requirements.
§ 641.403 - Allowable costs.
§ 641.404 - Classification of costs.
§ 641.405 - Limitations on federal funds.
§ 641.406 - Administrative cost waiver.
§ 641.407 - Non-federal share of project costs.
§ 641.408 - Budget changes.
§ 641.409 - Grantee fiscal and performance reporting requirements.
§ 641.410 - How does an eligible entity apply?
§ 641.411 - Program income accountability.
§ 641.412 - Equipment.
§ 641.413 - Audits.
§ 641.414 - Grant closeout procedures.
§ 641.415 - Department of Labor appeals procedures for grantees.
§ 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?
§ 641.501 - Administration.
§ 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?
§ 641.525 - Are there any other groups of individuals who should be given special consideration when selecting SCSEP participants?
§ 641.530 - Must the grantee/subgrantee always select priority or preference individuals?
§ 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?
§ 641.555 - What responsibility do grantees have to participants who have been placed in unsubsidized employment?
§ 641.560 - May grantees place participants directly into 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?
§ 641.590 - Are participants employees of the grantee, the local project, and/or the host agency?
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?
§ 641.601 - General.
§ 641.602 - Limitation.
§ 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?
§ 641.650 - Does the requirement that not less than 75 percent of the funds be used to pay participant wages and fringe benefits apply to section 502(e) activities?
§ 641.660 - Who is eligible to participate in section 502(e) private sector training activities?
§ 641.665 - When is eligibility determined?
§ 641.670 - May an eligible individual be enrolled simultaneously in section 502(e) private sector training activities operated by one grantee and a community service SCSEP project operated by a different SCSEP grantee?
§ 641.680 - How should grantees report on participants who are co-enrolled?
§ 641.690 - How is the performance of section 502(e) grantees measured?
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?
§ 641.715 - What are the common performance measures?
§ 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?
§ 641.760 - What sanctions will the Department impose if a national grantee fails to meet negotiated levels of performance under the total SCSEP grant?
§ 641.770 - What sanctions will the Department impose if a national grantee fails to meet negotiated levels of performance in any State it serves?
§ 641.780 - When will the Department assess the performance of a national grantee in a State?
§ 641.790 - What sanctions will the Department impose if a State grantee fails to meet negotiated levels of performance?
§ 641.795 - Will there be incentives for exceeding performance measures?
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?
§ 641.818 - What happens to funds that are unexpended at the end of the Program Year?
§ 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?