Aging and Poverty News
"Their jobless rate may be lower than average, but when an older worker loses a job, it can be devastating. These workers, typically 55 or older, aren't ready to retire. But their years of work experience don't make regrouping to find the next job any easier."
"Low-income seniors in Nebraska can stock up on farmers' market food with help from a federal grant. The Nebraska Department of Agriculture says more than $253,000 is available under the Senior Farmers' Market Nutrition Program."
"Social Security and Medicare are not broken. They are successful, popular programs that protect America's elderly from poverty. Cutting them would be devastating."
"Trommelen said this housing project will help satisfy Delanco's state-mandated affordable housing plan to provide more homes for low- and moderate-income residents."
"You're eligible if you have a Medicare prescription drug plan or a Medicare Advantage health plan that includes prescription coverage, and you are not receiving extra drug benefits from Medicare because of low income."
"A new report highlights an economic crisis facing West Virginia's large senior population. The study released Wednesday finds more than one in 10 residents age 65 or older at or below the federal poverty line. One-fourth rely entirely on Social Security. Most are women."
"The buildings usually don't offer meals or services. But also included among the buildings are three new assisted-living facilities for low-income seniors, along with a building for those with memory loss."
"Medicare, which pays for the skyrocketing cost of health care for seniors, will be a much harder nut to crack. Fix Social Security first, and it will be a little bit easier."
"The Supplemental Security Income and State Supplementary Payment program also is threatened. Carlson said it 'serves as the foundation for the ability of low-income senior citizens to survive.'”
"Heartland Housing Executive Director Andrew Geer said there is a need for affordable senior housing in the area. About 90 percent of the apartments would be subsidized for low-income senior citizens."
"A group of advocates for the poor and elderly, including AARP, on Tuesday called on Gov. Sonny Perdue to veto legislation that would eliminate income tax rebates of $26 to $52 that go to low-income Georgians."
"The program, known as the low-income subsidy, covers all or part of what seniors pay for drug coverage, from monthly premiums of their drug plans to annual deductibles to drug co-payments."
"But Dick Lavine, a senior fiscal analyst with the Austin-based Center for Public Policy Priorities, a think tank focused on issues affecting low-income Texans, said proponents of the freeze ignore the effect of inflation in the long run."
"Meanwhile, applications have jumped about 40 percent in the past 18 months at Experience Works, an Arlington, Va.-based nonprofit that provides federally funded employment retraining for low-income people over 55 years old in 30 states, including Georgia."
"A low-income tax credit for people who earn less than $20,000 has been eliminated. The bill will likely affect many seniors. The Senate voted 40-9 and the House voted 97-62 Thursday to approve the measure, which was originally intended to offset sales taxes paid by the poor."
"Thirteen years earlier, Rossi had signed on to a little-known state program that allows low-income senior citizens to defer their property taxes until they either sell their homes or die."
"Legislation that could push more than 100,000 low-income senior citizens in Massachusetts into managed care health plans spurred intense lobbying yesterday, as consumer advocates argued the measure would strip patients of their freedom to stay in traditional Medicare..."
"In a move to help financially strapped retirees, the City Council voted Tuesday to give $1,083 checks to former workers whose city benefits fall below the poverty line."
"Affordable housing for senior citizens was one of the needs the county’s 2005 study pinpointed. Since then, the county [has taken]... steps to make more housing available that low-to moderate-income residents can afford."
"He had moved into the category senior housing experts call 'assisted living.' Requiring help with some basic activities, he didn't need round-the-clock hospital care at a skilled nursing facility."
"In particular, concerns about Medicare could become a major political liability in the midterm elections. The report projected that Medicare cuts could drive about 15 percent of hospitals and other institutional providers into the red, "possibly jeopardizing access" to care for seniors."
"A push to eliminate free local bus and train rides to all but low-income senior citizens failed Wednesday in the Illinois Senate."
"Homeless and low-income seniors participated in the electoral process this morning as Sacramento City Council candidates and county supervisor hopefuls spoke and answered their questions at Loaves and Fishes."
"This building in the Kingsbridge section of the Bronx... went into foreclosure last year when Milbank defaulted... Since then, the tenants have been left to watch conditions deteriorate -- there are now more than 900 open violations on Ms. Paulino's Heath Avenue building alone..."
"But her timing was lucky. By then, New York State had taken notice of all the mentally ill being discharged from hospitals and winding up homeless on the streets, and was paying for the first supervised community residences and apartment programs."
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