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Senate committee backs changing pay rate for Senior Community Service Employment Program to boost participation
Summary
The Senate Human Services Committee advanced House Bill 1066, a departmental request to set a program-specific compensation rate for Senior Community Service Employment Program (CSEP) participants so federal funds can be fully used and state administrative costs reduced.
The Senate Human Services Committee voted 6-0 to give House Bill 1066 a “do pass” recommendation after hearing from Jim Fleming, interim director of the Vocational Rehabilitation program at the North Dakota Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
HHS asked the committee to authorize a compensation rate limited to participants in the Senior Community Service Employment Program, a federally funded training program for low-income North Dakotans age 55 and older. "It is one of those odd situations where we are asking for your permission to spend more money so we can save yet even more money," Fleming told the committee, adding the change would allow North Dakota to fully utilize federal grant dollars rather than…
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