PY2025 Planning Instruction and Allotments for Senior Community Service Employment Program (SCSEP) National Grantees

The Employment and Training Administration (ETA) has issued Training and Employment Guidance Letter No. 16-24, Change 1, providing updated Program Year (PY) 2025 planning instructions and allotments for Senior Community Service Employment Program (SCSEP) National Grantees. This advisory, dated September 30, 2025, allocates $307,072,086 to National Grantees, bringing the total SCSEP funding for PY 2025 to $392,941,125. National Grantees must submit required application materials via Grants.gov within 30 days of the TEGL's publication, with an option to initially submit only the SF-424 form. The application requires detailed documents including budget and program narratives, programmatic assurances, and various optional attachments. The document also specifies funding restrictions for administrative costs, participant wages, and non-Federal cost sharing, along with detailed instructions for explaining budget line items and programmatic assurances related to participant recruitment, assessment, employment plans, community service, and administrative systems. Attachments detail funding allocations and authorized positions for both non-minority and minority national sponsors by state.