---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 3033"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "3033"
heading: "Payment of grants"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/3033"
units:
  - "Chapter 35 — Programs for Older Americans"
  - "Subchapter IV — Activities for Health, Independence, and Longevity"
  - "Part B — General Provisions"
---

# §3033. Payment of grants

- (a) **Contributions—** To the extent the [Assistant Secretary](/usc/42/3002.md?p=7) determines a contribution to be appropriate, the [Assistant Secretary](/usc/42/3002.md?p=7) shall require the recipient of any grant or contract under this subchapter to contribute money, facilities, or services for carrying out the [project](/usc/42/13641.md?p=2) for which such grant or contract was made.
- (b) **Payments—** Payments under this subchapter pursuant to a grant or contract may be made (after necessary adjustment, in the case of grants, on account of previously made overpayments or underpayments) in advance or by way of reimbursement, and in such installments and on such conditions, as the [Assistant Secretary](/usc/42/3002.md?p=7) may determine.
- (c) **Consultation—** The [Assistant Secretary](/usc/42/3002.md?p=7) shall make no grant or contract under this subchapter in any [State](/usc/42/3002.md?p=51) that has established or designated a [State agency](/usc/42/3002.md?p=52) for purposes of subchapter III unless the [Assistant Secretary](/usc/42/3002.md?p=7)—
  - (1) consults with the [State agency](/usc/42/3002.md?p=52) prior to issuing the grant or contract; and
  - (2) informs the [State agency](/usc/42/3002.md?p=52) of the purposes of the grant or contract when the grant or contract is issued.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 89–73, title IV, § 431, as added Pub. L. 106–501, title IV, § 401, Nov. 13, 2000, 114 Stat. 2265.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 3033, Pub. L. 89–73, title IV, § 403, as added Pub. L. 93–29, title IV, § 401, May 3, 1973, 87 Stat. 46; amended Pub. L. 94–135, title I, § 109, Nov. 28, 1975, 89 Stat. 717; Pub. L. 95–478, title I, § 104(a)(3), Oct. 18, 1978, 92 Stat. 1537, related to task of attracting qualified persons to field of aging, prior to the general amendment of this subchapter by Pub. L. 97–115.

A prior section 431 of Pub. L. 89–73 was classified to section 3037 of this title, prior to the general amendment of this subchapter by Pub. L. 106–501.

Another prior section 431 of Pub. L. 89–73 was classified to section 3035g of this title, prior to the general amendment of this subchapter by Pub. L. 97–115.

Another prior section 431 of Pub. L. 89–73 was renumbered section 451, and was classified to section 3037 of this title, prior to the general amendment of this subchapter by Pub. L. 97–115.