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104 STAT. 3166 PUBLIC LAW 101-610—NOV. 16, 1990 42 USC 12640. 42 USC 12641. (7) supplying additional volunteer assistance to community agencies without overloading such agencies with more volunteers than can effectively be utilized; (8) providing services and activities that could not otherwise be performed by employed workers and that will not supplant the hiring of, or result in the displacement of, employed workers or impair the existing contracts of such workers; and (9) attracting a greater number of citizens to public service, including service in the active and reserve components of the Armed Forces, the National Guard, the Peace Corps (as established by the Peace Corps Act (22 U.S.C. 2501 et seq.)), and the VISTA and older American volunteer programs established under the Domestic Volunteer Service Act of 1973 (42 U.S.C. 4950 et seq.). (h) OBTAINING INFORMATION. — (1) IN GENERAL. — In conducting the eveiluations required under subsection (g), the Commission may require each program participant and State or local applicant to provide such information as may be necessary to carry out the requirements of this section. (2) CONFIDENTIALITY. — The Commission shall keep information acquired under this section confidential. (i) DEADLINE.— The Commission shall complete the evaluations required under subsection (g) not later than 30 months after the date of enactment of this Act. (j) REPORT.— Not later than 24 months after the date on which the first program is initiated under this title, the Commission shall prepare and submit, to the appropriate Committees of Congress, a report containing the results of the evaluations conducted under subsection (a)(2) with respect to the first 18 months after such initiation date. SEC. 180. ENGAGEMENT OF PARTICIPANTS. A State shall not engage a participant to serve in any program that receives assistance under this title unless and until amounts have been appropriated under section 501 for the provision of postservice benefits and for the payment of other necessary expenses and costs associated with such participsint. SEC. 181. NATIONAL SERVICE DEMONSTRATION PROGRAM AMENDMENTS. (a) TREATMENT OF EDUCATION AND HOUSING BENEFITS.— For purposes of determining eligibility for programs under title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1070 et seq.) (hereafter in this section referred to as the "Act"), post-service benefits received under this Act shall be considered as estimated financial Eissistance as defined in section 428(a)(2)(C)(i) of title IV of the Act (20 U.S.C. 1078(a)(2)(C)(i)), except that in no case shall such a post-service benefit be considered as— (1) annual adjusted family income as defined in section 411F(1) of subpart 1 of part A of title IV of such Act (20 U.S.C. 1070a-6); or (2) total income as defined in section 480(a) of part F of title IV of such Act (20 U.S.C. 1087vv(a)). (b) TREATMENT OF STIPEND FOR LIVING EXPENSES.—In no case shall living allowances received under this Act be considered in the determination of expected family contribution or independent student status under—