42 U.S.C. § 906 : US Code - Section 906: Training grants for public welfare personnel

Search 42 U.S.C. § 906 : US Code - Section 906: Training grants for public welfare personnel

(a) Authorization of appropriations
In order to assist in increasing the effectiveness and efficiency
of administration of public assistance programs by increasing the
number of adequately trained public welfare personnel available for
work in public assistance programs, there are hereby authorized to
be appropriated for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1963, the sum
of $3,500,000, and for each fiscal year thereafter the sum of
$5,000,000.
(b) Allocation for carrying out direct grant programs
Such portion of the sums appropriated pursuant to subsection (a)
of this section for any fiscal year as the Secretary may determine,
but not in excess of $1,000,000 in the case of the fiscal year
ending June 30, 1963, and $2,000,000 in the case of any fiscal year
thereafter, shall be available for carrying out subsection (f) of
this section. From the remainder of the sums so appropriated for
any fiscal year, the Secretary shall make allotments to the States
on the basis of (1) population, (2) relative need for trained
public welfare personnel, particularly for personnel to provide
self-support and self-care services, and (3) financial need.
(c) Payments to States for cost of grant programs to certain
agencies and institutions
From each State's allotment under subsection (b) of this section,
the Secretary shall from time to time pay to such State its costs
of carrying out the purposes of this section through (1) grants to
public or other nonprofit institutions of higher learning for
training personnel employed or preparing for employment in public
assistance programs, (2) special courses of study or seminars of
short duration conducted for such personnel by experts hired on a
temporary basis for the purpose, and (3) establishing and
maintaining, directly or through grants to such institutions,
fellowships or traineeships for such personnel at such
institutions, with such stipends and allowances as may be permitted
under regulations of the Secretary.
(d) Advance payments to States
Payments pursuant to subsection (c) of this section shall be made
in advance on the basis of estimates by the Secretary and
adjustments may be made in future payments under this section to
take account of overpayments or underpayments in amounts previously
paid.
(e) Reallotments
The amount of any allotment to a State under subsection (b) of
this section for any fiscal year which the State certifies to the
Secretary will not be required for carrying out the purposes of
this section in such State shall be available for reallotment from
time to time, on such dates as the Secretary may fix, to other
States which the Secretary determines have need in carrying out
such purposes for sums in excess of those previously allotted to
them under this section and will be able to use such excess amounts
during such fiscal year; such reallotments to be made on the basis
provided in subsection (b) of this section for the initial
allotments to the States. Any amount so reallotted to a State shall
be deemed part of its allotment under such subsection.
(f) Direct grants to certain agencies and institutions
(1) The portion of the sums appropriated for any fiscal year
which is determined by the Secretary under the first sentence of
subsection (b) of this section to be available for carrying out
this subsection shall be available to enable him to provide (A)
directly or through grants to or contracts with public or nonprofit
private institutions of higher learning, for training personnel who
are employed or preparing for employment in the administration of
public assistance programs, (B) directly or through grants to or
contracts with public or nonprofit private agencies or
institutions, for special courses of study or seminars of short
duration (not in excess of one year) for training of such
personnel, and (C) directly or through grants to or contracts with
public or nonprofit private institutions of higher learning, for
establishing and maintaining fellowships or traineeships for such
personnel at such institutions, with such stipends and allowances
as may be permitted by the Secretary.
(2) Payments under paragraph (1) may be made in advance on the
basis of estimates by the Secretary, or may be made by way of
reimbursement, and adjustments may be made in future payments under
this subsection to take account of overpayments or underpayments in
amounts previously paid.
(3) The Secretary may, to the extent he finds such action to be
necessary, prescribe requirements to assure that any individual
will repay the amount of his fellowship or traineeship received
under this subsection to the extent such individual fails to serve,
for the period prescribed by the Secretary, with a State or
political subdivision thereof, or with the Federal Government, in
connection with administration of any State or local public
assistance program. The Secretary may relieve any individual of his
obligation to so repay, in whole or in part, whenever and to the
extent that requirement of such repayment would, in his judgment,
be inequitable or would be contrary to the purposes of any of the
public welfare programs established by this chapter.