Older Americans Act Employment and Services: How to Assist New Jersey's Growing Senior Population : Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Retirement Income and Employment of the Select Committee on Aging, House of Representatives, One Hundred Second Congress, First Session, March 1, 1991, Vineland, NJ.

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Page 1 - The Subcommittee on Retirement Income and Employment of the House Select Committee on Aging will come to order.
Page 13 - State agency on aging shall be the leader relative to all aging issues on behalf of all older persons in the State. This means that the State agency shall proactively carry out a wide range of functions related to advocacy, planning, coordination, interagency linkages, information sharing, brokering, monitoring and evaluation, designed to lead to the development or enhancement of comprehensive and coordinated community based systems in, or serving, communities throughout the State. These systems...
Page 1 - US HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SELECT COMMITTEE ON AGING, SUBCOMMITTEE ON RETIREMENT INCOME AND EMPLOYMENT, Washington, DC.
Page 31 - We have your statements, which, without objection, will be made a part of the record.
Page 2 - The Honorable William J. Hughes, Chairman Subcommittee on Retirement Income and Employment House Select Committee on Aging "PRIVATE PENSION AND RETIREE HEALTH BENEFITS: UNDER SERVING TODAY'S RETIREES, RETREATING FROM TOMORROW'S?
Page 68 - The SCSEP should continue to strike a balance between the three goals that have been the keys to its success: employment, training, and community service. These goals enable program operators to best meet individual and community needs by providing flexibility in designing work and training assignments.
Page 70 - Congress to establish authorization levels that take into account the signficant projected increase in the number of older Americans who will become eligible for the SCSEP. The program now is believed to serve less than 1% of the eligible population, and this percentage will inevitably decrease without the funding authority to expand and meet the growing demand. Specifically...
Page 68 - Service to Those Most in Need. The SCSEP should continue to serve those who are most in need — older Americans who are at or below 125% of the established poverty level. As a result of this eligibility criteria, the SCSEP has effectively reached minorities, persons with disabilities, veterans, the homeless and others who are in greatest need of SCSEP employment and training assistance.

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