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NYC 9/11 Public Portal Document

Programmatic Review

In 2002, DFTA will continue to provide services to elderly New Yorkers through a network of 340 senior centers, which serve over 165,000 of the City’s elderly. The Department will also provide congregate and home- H' delivered meals to seniors throughout the five boroughs. Over four and one half million home-delivered meals (including oyer one million on weekends and holidays) and over nine million congregate meals will be served.

The Department’s Senior Citizen Rent Increase Exemption Program (SCRIE) subsidizes the annual rent increases of over 45,000 elderly households through property tax abatements to the owners of more than 27,000 buildings participating in the program. In an ongoing effort to inform the public, the Department has distributed over 200,000 copies of “Your Guide to the Senior Citizen Rent Increase Exemption (SCRIE) Program” to tenants, building owners, elected officials, and community-based service organizations.

The Departhient manages a number of additional programs that assist elderly New Yorkers including I / homemaking, housekeeping and social adult day care services for homebound and frail seniors and case management and transportation services to meet special and recurring needs. The Department supports funding I for 28 NORC’s (Naturally Occurring Retirement Communities), which provide on-site services in complexes I with large numbers of elderly residents. Seniors are also engaged in activities with younger New Yorkers through I the Department’s Foster Grandparent and Intergenerational programs.

DEPARTMENT FOR THE AGING: HISTORICAL TAX - LEVY SPENDING \ 180 164.7 I66.I \ 160 — ■ Actual ■ Budget 149.6 140 114.2 120 109.1

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67.9 84.4 86.7 96.1 96.3

60 34.4 36.1 40

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1990 1991 1992* 1993* 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 I' i Fiscal Years * Reflect^ transfer of 1^7 senior centers from HRA between 1992 and 1993.

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