On Friday’s edition of WDUN’s “The Drive at 5,” a Hall County-based director for senior job training funds provided an update on the lapse they recently faced.
The Senior Community Service Employment Program (SCSEP) was created in 1965 to be a work-based job training program for seniors looking to get into the workforce. It’s a program that gets roughly $400-million a year, and costs each taxpayer roughly $2.50 to run.
“The situation right now is that Congress hasn’t passed a full year funding bill,” The Legacy Link’s SCSEP Director Christine Osasu said. “We ended the longest government shutdown in U.S. history when they extended the funding through Jan. 30, but after that it’s anyone’s guess.”
Osasu called the future of the program “uncertain” as the House recommended zeroing out the funds after the Senate Appropriations Committee approved $395-million for the program in August…