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§3029 Payments of Grants or Contracts

Title 42 › CHAPTER 35 — PROGRAMS FOR OLDER AMERICANS › SUBCHAPTER III — GRANTS FOR STATE AND COMMUNITY PROGRAMS ON AGING › Part A — General Provisions › § 3029

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

Grants or contract payments can be given up front, paid back after spending, or sent in parts, after adjusting for any earlier over- or under-payments, as the Assistant Secretary decides. If a State does not yet have an approved State plan, the Assistant Secretary may use money from that State’s yearly allotment to help the State create a plan. Each year, at least 25% of the non‑Federal share of total spending under the State plan must come from State or local public funds. For the specific services listed in the law, any required non‑Federal share that is more than 10% of those service costs must be paid from State funds. If a State’s spending from State sources in a year is below its average for the prior three fiscal years, the State’s allotment for that year is cut by the same percentage of the shortfall.

Full Legal Text

Title 42, §3029

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(a)Advances or reimbursement; installments; assistance in development of State plan
Payments of grants or contracts under this subchapter may be made (after necessary adjustments resulting from previously made overpayments or underpayments) in advance or by way of reimbursement, and in such installments, as the Assistant Secretary may determine. From a State’s allotment for a fiscal year which is available under section 3028 of this title the Assistant Secretary may pay to a State which does not have a State plan approved under section 3027 of this title such amounts as the Assistant Secretary deems appropriate for the purpose of assisting such State in developing a State plan.
(b)Matching funds; percentage limitation
(1)For each fiscal year, not less than 25 percent of the non-Federal share of the total expenditures under the State plan which is required by section 3024(d) of this title shall be met from funds from State or local public sources.
(2)Funds required to meet the non-Federal share required by section 3024(d)(1)(D) of this title, in amounts exceeding 10 percent of the cost of the services specified in such section 3024(d)(1)(D) of this title, shall be met from State sources.
(c)Reduction of State allotment
A State’s allotment under section 3024 of this title for a fiscal year shall be reduced by the percentage (if any) by which its expenditures for such year from State sources under its State plan approved under section 3027 of this title are less than its average annual expenditures from such sources for the period of 3 fiscal years preceding such year.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Prior Provisions

A prior section 3029, Pub. L. 89–73, title III, § 309, as added Pub. L. 93–351, § 3,
July 12, 1974, 88 Stat. 357, related to transportation projects, prior to the general amendment of this subchapter by Pub. L. 95–478. See section 3026 of this title. Provisions similar to those comprising this section were contained in Pub. L. 89–73, title III, § 307, as added Pub. L. 93–29, title III, § 301,
May 3, 1973, 87 Stat. 44, which was classified to section 3027 of this title prior to repeal by Pub. L. 95–478.

Amendments

2006—Subsec. (b)(2). Pub. L. 109–365 substituted “10 percent of the cost of the services specified in such section 3024(d)(1)(D) of this title” for “the non-Federal share required prior to fiscal year 1981”. 1993—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 103–171 substituted “Assistant Secretary” for “Commissioner” wherever appearing. 1987—Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 100–175 substituted “its average annual expenditures from such sources for the period of 3 fiscal years preceding such year” for “its expenditures from such sources for the preceding fiscal year”. 1984—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 98–459, § 309(a), substituted “as the Commissioner deems appropriate” for “as he deems appropriate”. Subsec. (b)(2). Pub. L. 98–459, § 309(b), substituted “section 3024(d)(1)(D)” for “section 3024(d)(1)(B)”.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

of 1987 AmendmentAmendment by Pub. L. 100–175 effective Oct. 1, 1987, except not applicable with respect to any area plan submitted under section 3026(a) of this title or any State plan submitted under section 3027(a) of this title and approved for any fiscal year beginning before Nov. 29, 1987, see section 701(a), (b) of Pub. L. 100–175, set out as a note under section 3001 of this title.

Effective Date

of 1984 AmendmentAmendment by Pub. L. 98–459 effective Oct. 9, 1984, see section 803(a) of Pub. L. 98–459, set out as a note under section 3001 of this title.

Effective Date

Section effective at close of Sept. 30, 1978, see section 504 of Pub. L. 95–478, set out as an

Effective Date

of 1978 Amendment note under section 3001 of this title.

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Citation

42 U.S.C. § 3029

Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110