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Community Solutions - Community Vision Leadership Council Community Solutions

    Community Vision Council: Senior Success

    INITIATIVE:
    Benefits Enrollment and Access for Seniors
    As our population ages, many older adults quietly struggle to make ends meet with small retirement incomes and growing medical expenses. Seniors have a significant unmet need for access to health and human service assistance in our community. For example, only 30 percent of eligible seniors receive food stamps. This initiative will create a more user-friendly system to help older adults access benefits to meet their basic financial and health needs, enabling them to move from poverty toward a livable income. The system will increase the number of eligible seniors enrolled in major benefits programs.

    PROGRESS TO DATE:
    • Western Reserve Area Agency on Aging became the lead agency for this initiative in 2008.
    • United Way's 211/First Call For Help is also helping to develop this community-wide network of benefits access for seniors.
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