Data / Federal rules / 2024-02772
AmeriCorps Seniors Regulation Updates
The Corporation for National and Community Service published this proposed rule in the Federal Register on February 14, 2024. Comments closed on April 15, 2024.
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What the agency says
The Corporation for National and Community Service (operating as AmeriCorps) proposes to revise its regulations governing AmeriCorps Seniors programs. This proposed rule would remove barriers to service for individuals and increase flexibility for sponsors to determine the best mix of staffing and resources to accomplish project goals. Specifically, this proposed rule would remove barriers for individuals to serve as AmeriCorps Seniors volunteers in three ways: first, by limiting what is considered income in the calculation that determines eligibility to receive a stipend; second, by allowing volunteers to continue to receive a stipend when their sponsor places them on administrative leave due to extenuating circumstances that prevent service; and third, by allowing sponsors to supplement stipends. This proposed rule would increase flexibility for AmeriCorps Seniors sponsors in three ways: first, by removing the prescriptive requirement for them to employ a full-time project director; second, by establishing a single 10 percent match value regardless of grant year; and third, by allowing sponsors to choose to pay more than (but not less than) the AmeriCorps-established stipend rates using non- AmeriCorps funds for the amount exceeding the AmeriCorps-established rate. These proposed changes would allow sponsors to determine the best staffing and volunteer mix to support projects and how to devote resources that would otherwise be devoted to meet increasingly high match requirements. This proposed rule would also update nomenclature to reflect that the Corporation for National and Community Service operates as AmeriCorps and that "Senior Corps" is now known as "AmeriCorps Seniors."
Key facts
- Document number
- 2024-02772
- Type
- Proposed rule
- Action
- Proposed rule with request for comments
- Agency
- Corporation for National and Community Service
- Published
- February 14, 2024
- Comments due
- April 15, 2024
- Dates
- Written comments must be submitted by April 15, 2024.
- Regulation ID (RIN)
- 3045-AA81
- Code of Federal Regulations
- 45 CFR 2551; 45 CFR 2552; 45 CFR 2553
- Topics
- Aged; Grant programs-social programs; Volunteers
- Pages
- 7
Other documents from the Corporation for National and Community Service
| Document | Type | Published |
|---|---|---|
| Rescinding Portions of AmeriCorps Title VI Regulations To Conform More Closely With the Statutory Text and To Implement Executive Order 14281 2026-14906 | Proposed rule | Jul 23 |
| Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance 2026-10817 | Proposed rule | May 29 |
| AmeriCorps State and National Updates 2025-00984 | Final rule | Jan 17, 2025 |
| Annual Civil Monetary Penalties Inflation Adjustment 2025-00635 | Final rule | Jan 14, 2025 |
| Restrictions on Operation of AmeriCorps Seniors Programs 2024-28765 | Proposed rule | Dec 12, 2024 |
| Protection of Human Subjects 2024-25881 | Final rule | Nov 7, 2024 |
| Protection of Human Subjects 2024-24517 | Final rule | Oct 29, 2024 |
| AmeriCorps Seniors Regulation Updates 2024-19348 | Final rule | Aug 30, 2024 |
Everything from the Corporation for National and Community Service · Rules on aged · Rules on grant programs-social programs · Rules on volunteers · Published in February 2024
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