Located in:
c. 6. F. Formerly incarcerated individuals, as defined in TEGL 17-20
Current Narrative:
F. ARE FORMERLY INCARCERATED
The 2020 reauthorization of the Older Americans Act added a new category to the priority requirements such that eligible individuals who have been incarcerated within the last five years or are under supervision following release from prison or jail within the last five years are now a priority population for enrollment and an additional category for the most-in-need characteristics. These changes to SCSEP made by the Supporting Older Americans Act of 2020 took effect one year from that legislation’s enactment, March 25, 2021.
SCSEP participants who are identified as individuals with barriers to employment and most-in-need will now include formerly-incarcerated individuals. Formerly-incarcerated individuals are, therefore, now eligible for an additional 12 months of participation in SCSEP under their individual participant durational limit, pending ETA approval of the grantee’s revised individual durational limit (IDL) policy (20 CFR 641.570(b)). If it can be documented that a current participant would meet the requirement for this waiver factor (that is, at their date of initial eligibility determination, they were within five years of their date of release from being incarcerated or under supervision after release from prison or jail), then the current participant would be eligible for the IDL extension for this waiver factor.