Senior Community Service Employment: Program Delivery Could Be Improved
Through Legislative and Administrative Actions (Testimony, 11/02/95,
GAO/T-HEHS-96-57).

Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO discussed its findings on the
Department of Labor's Senior Community Service Employment Program
(SCSEP). GAO noted that: (1) consistent with Older American Act (OAA)
provisions, Labor distributes SCSEP funds through noncompetitive grants
to national organizations and state agencies which in turn use the funds
to finance community service employment projects; (2) Labor has agreed
to submit future SCSEP grants to its Procurement Review Board for
review; (3) contrary to OAA provisions, Congress has required Labor to
award 78 percent of SCSEP funds to 10 national sponsors and 22 percent
to state agencies; (4) Labor also distributes funds to the national
sponsors based on a hold harmless OAA provision that requires it to
maintain the 1978 level of activity; (5) Labor's distribution of SCSEP
funds among and within states does not correspond to the size of each
state's disadvantaged elderly population; and (6) under Labor
regulations, grantees can charge certain administrative expenses to the
other costs categories and thus exceed the statutory 15-percent limit on
administrative costs.

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 REPORTNUM:  T-HEHS-96-57
     TITLE:  Senior Community Service Employment: Program Delivery Could 
             Be Improved Through Legislative and Administrative
             Actions
      DATE:  11/02/95
   SUBJECT:  Elderly persons
             Aid for training or employment
             Employment or training programs
             Grant award procedures
             Disadvantaged persons
             Non-profit organizations
             State-administered programs
             Administrative costs
             Grant administration
             Accounting procedures
IDENTIFIER:  ETA Senior Community Service Employment Program
             
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