Program for job-seeking seniors open

Experience Works, a Senior Community Service Employment Program, is a job-training program for low-income persons ages 55 and older.

Through Experience Works, seniors are able to receive paid job training to develop new skills or refresh current skills. They also receive job placement assistance.

Funded under Title V of the Older Americans Act, as well as through state and local grants, the program benefits thousands of older Americans across the U.S.

To qualify, one must be 55 years or older and a resident of the state in which SCSEP enrollment is based.

Applicants must have an annual family income of not more than 125 percent of the established federal poverty guidelines.

They also must be eligible to work in the U.S. and be currently unemployed.

Experience Works serves more than 125,000 each year, and is the largest of the federal government's Senior Community Service Employment Programs.

Local host agencies include the Boys and Girls Club, county offices, Lampasas Public Library and Lampasas Association for the Arts.

For program information, phone B.J. Johnson at (254) 542-2633, ext. 2606.