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AmeriCorps Seniors Regulation Updates
The Corporation for National and Community Service published this final rule in the Federal Register on August 30, 2024. It took effect on October 1, 2024.
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What the agency says
The Corporation for National and Community Service (operating as AmeriCorps) is revising its regulations governing AmeriCorps Seniors programs. This rule removes barriers to service for individuals and increases flexibility for grantees to accomplish project goals and recruit volunteers. Specifically, this rule removes barriers for individuals to serve as AmeriCorps Seniors volunteers in three ways: first, by modernizing 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 grantees to supplement stipends. This rule reduces burden for AmeriCorps Seniors grantees in two ways: first, it establishes a single 10 percent match value regardless of grant year. Second, this rule allows grantees to choose to pay more than (but not less than) the AmeriCorps-established stipend rates, using non-AmeriCorps funds for the amount that exceeds the AmeriCorps-established rate. These changes will improve grantees' ability to recruit volunteers and allow grantees to devote to program operations resources that would otherwise be devoted to meet increasingly high match requirements. The rule also updates 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
- 2024-19348
- Type
- Final rule
- Action
- Final rule
- Agency
- Corporation for National and Community Service
- Published
- August 30, 2024
- Takes effect
- October 1, 2024
- Dates
- This rule is effective October 1, 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
- 10
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 State and National Updates 2024-19349 | Proposed rule | Aug 28, 2024 |
Everything from the Corporation for National and Community Service · Rules on aged · Rules on grant programs-social programs · Rules on volunteers · Published in August 2024
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