Congress Cuts Funding for Two Senior Programs

Congress Reduces Investment in Older Adult Employment Training through SCSEP by $34,000,000

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 9, 2017 Contact: Wes Lum, National Asian Pacific Center on Aging, (206) 624-1221 A long-overdue fiscal year 2017 spending bill passed on May 4, 2017 will provide the Senior Community Services Employment Program (SCSEP) with $400 million to...

Congress Cuts Funding for Two Senior Programs

How does the Senior Community Service Employment Program (SCSEP) impact elders in Indian Country?

This post originally appeared on the NICOA blog. The Senior Community Service Employment Program (SCSEP) is the only federal community service and job training program focused exclusively on serving low-income older adults 55 and older, in nearly all 3,000 U.S....