Reauthorizing The Older Americans Act

| Read Our Blog Read Our Blog Blog Reauthorizing the Older Americans Act Patricia Wilkins February 18, 2014 Senior Services, Uncategorized, Workforce 0 Congress went house for the 12 months-end holidays without extending unemployment benefits to 1.3 million lengthy-time period unemployed. As of today, those advantages have not been restored. Unemployment at any age, is a definite problem, but for older employees, it is disaster; statistics show that it takes 50- and 60-year-olds about twice as lengthy to search out work (if they ever do) as folks 40 and younger. The Senior Community Service Employment Program (SCSEP) is a community service and work primarily based training program for older staff. SCSEP provides subsidized, group service-based mostly training alternatives for low-income individuals fifty five or older who're unemployed and have poor employment prospects. SCSEP is the only federally funded program for unemployed older workers. SCSEP is authorized by the Older Americans Act (Title V), which is at presen t up for reauthorization. Sen. Bernie Sanders, chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Primary Health and Aging, at present introduced laws to reauthorize and strengthen the Older Americans Act. National SCSEP Grantees met collectively in Washington DC in December, 2013 to debate the reauthorization of the Older American’s Act with Senator Sanders. Senator Sanders urged National Grantees to continue ” to teach, rally and organize” We applaud his continued efforts and we encourage Congress to behave shortly to reauthorize this essential laws to continue funding and assist for SCSEP and different programs administered through this act. Your e-mail handle will not be revealed. Required fields are marked * Comment Name * Email * Website Subscribe me to your mailing list Receive our newsletters, breaking news alerts, and extra! Veterans Forward Orientation Careers by National Able Network: An Online Orientation for Nebraska Residents! Careers by National Able Network: An Online Orie ntation for Illinois Residents! View More…