Program Overview

The Senior Community Service Employment Program (SCSEP), funded under Title V of the Older Americans Act, serves persons with low incomes who are 55 years old or over and have poor employment prospects. The program has two purposes: to provide useful community services and to foster individual economic self sufficiency through training and job placement in unsubsidized jobs. Services provided include:

Community service assignments include the following activities:

social, health, welfare, and educational services (particularly literacy tutoring)

personal assistance, including tax counseling and assistance and financial counseling

library, recreational, and other similar services

conservation, maintenance, or restoration of natural resources

community betterment or beautification

anti-pollution and environmental quality efforts

weatherization activities

economic development; and

such other services essential and necessary to the community as the Secretary of the Department of Labor, by regulation, may prescribe.