80 FR 54288 - Announcement of the Intent To Award a Single-Source Cooperative Agreement to the Gerontology Institute, University of Massachusetts Boston

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Community Living

Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 174 (September 9, 2015)

The Administration for Community Living (ACL) announces the intent to award a single-source cooperative agreement in the amount of $75,000 to the Gerontology Institute, University of Massachusetts Boston (UMass Boston) to support and stimulate the expansion of work already underway by UMass Boston in providing pension counseling services to residents of the State of Illinois.

[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 174 (Wednesday, September 9, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 54288-54289]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2015-22630]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Administration for Community Living


Announcement of the Intent To Award a Single-Source Cooperative 
Agreement to the Gerontology Institute, University of Massachusetts 
Boston

AGENCY: Administration for Community Living, HHS.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Administration for Community Living (ACL) announces the 
intent to award a single-source cooperative agreement in the amount of 
$75,000 to the Gerontology Institute, University of Massachusetts 
Boston (UMass Boston) to support and stimulate the expansion of work 
already underway by UMass Boston in providing pension counseling 
services to residents of the State of Illinois.

DATES: The award will be issued for a project period to run 
concurrently with the existing grantee's budget period of July 1, 2015 
through June 30, 2016.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Valerie Soroka, Office of Elder 
Justice and Adult Protective Services, Administration on Aging, 
Administration for Community Living, 1 Massachusetts Avenue NW., 
Washington, DC 20001. Telephone: 202-357-3531; Email: 
[email protected]

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The ACL's Pension Counseling & Information 
Program consists of six regional pension counseling projects, covering 
29 states. The state of Illinois, with 6.4 million workers and a 
pension participation rate of 42%, is one of the largest states without 
an ACL-funded pension counseling project. The Pension Action Center at 
UMass Boston, which conducts ACL's New England Pension Assistance 
Project, is currently providing pension counseling services

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to residents of Illinois with funding from the Retirement Research 
Foundation. Additional funds are needed to leverage the foundation's 
funding, in order to ensure that the current provision of services to 
Illinois residents will be continued. This supplementary funding would 
be provided for the approved period.

    Authority: This program is authorized under Title II of the 
Older Americans Act (OAA) (42 U.S.C. 3032), as amended by the Older 
Americans Act Amendments of 2006, Public Law 109-365.

(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance 93.048).

    Dated: August 14, 2015.
Kathy Greenlee,
Assistant Secretary for Aging and Administrator, Administration for 
Community Living.
[FR Doc. 2015-22630 Filed 9-8-15; 8:45 am]
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