Health Care Tax Credit (HCTC) National Emergency Grants (NEGs)

The Department of Labor Employment and Training Administration operates the Health Care Tax Credit (HCTC) National Emergency Grants program (CFDA 17.276) to provide health insurance coverage assistance and support related services to eligible Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) and ATAA/RTAA recipients, with the most recent grant award dated January 1, 2017.

This program is no longer actively disbursing funding. The portfolio contains 14 awards spanning from October 2009 to January 2017, with no grant activity in the past nine years. Award volume peaked in 2010 with six grants, then declined sharply; the final four awards were issued in 2017 and all carried completion dates of December 31, 2019 or earlier. No recent grant opportunities are currently posted.

The program historically funded Health Coverage Tax Credit assistance and National Emergency Grant (NEG) activities for trade adjustment eligible populations. Awards ranged from approximately $20 thousand to $5 million, with substantial variation in scale. The largest awards—$5 million obligated in October 2009 and $3.48 million in December 2009—supported broad National Emergency Grant activities, while later awards in 2017 were substantially smaller (approximately $20 thousand to $101 thousand) and focused on Health Coverage Tax Credit administration.

All 14 awards were Project Grants. Funding was concentrated within the Department of Labor Employment and Training Administration (13 awards, $14.2 million obligated), with one smaller Department of Labor award ($158 thousand). Combined federal dollars obligated totaled $14.3 million.

Given the absence of grant awards since January 2017 and no posted grant opportunities, this program does not represent an active funding avenue for new applications. Organizations with historical involvement or interest in TAA-related health coverage assistance should monitor for program reactivation, though no recent activity signals imminent reopening.