Program Year (PY) 2024 Planning Instructions and Allotments for Senior Community Service Employment Program (SCSEP) State, Territorial, and National Grantees

Background
This Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) provides SCSEP state, territory, and national grantees with Program Year (PY) 2024 SCSEP allotments and the application instructions for PY 2024 grant submissions. The TEGL provides current SCSEP national grantees with allotments and application instructions for the first four months of PY 2024. The TEGL provides only partial-year funding for national grantees because PY 2024 is a competition year, and these funds will cover the transition period leading up to the competition effective date.

Grant Details
This TEGL provides grant planning guidance to SCSEP grantees for PY 2024, including the number of authorized positions and associated allotments for the program year, as well as ETA’s requirements for obligating funding to grantees. SCSEP funds are allocated by a formula set forth in Sec. 506 of the Older Americans Act (OAA). Sec. 517 establishes that SCSEP operates on a program year basis from July 1 through June 30 of the following year. Under Division D, Title I, of the Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024, Pub. L. 118-47 (from this point forward, referred to as “the Act”), the Secretary of Labor (Secretary) may set aside up to 0.5 percent of each discretionary ETA appropriation for activities related to program integrity and 0.75 percent of most DOL appropriations for evaluations, and may transfer up to 1 percent to other programs, projects or activities funded by the Act.

Eligibility Requirements
To apply for PY 2024 grant funds, SCSEP grantees must follow the instructions in this TEGL and submit all documents through Grants.gov as soon as possible, and no later than June 9, 2024.

Period of Performance
This TEGL covers the full year grant period for state and territorial grantees totaling $87,722,188, and the four-month transition period for national grantees totaling $110,456,671.

Grant Value
$401,335,103 is allotted to SCSEP grants in PY 2024.