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SENIOR CITIZEN NYC BUDGET CUTS FOR QUEENS NEW YORK

The borough of Queens for example, is home to 375,000 seniors. Here’s what that $39 million in service cuts means for Queens’s seniors:

• A $4.5 million cut for 13 million senior meals annually. Consider that senior centers and meals-on-wheels are currently required to feed seniors on a budget of $2.20 a meal.
• A 30% cut in case management funding, which means 8,000 of the oldest, frailest homebound seniors — average age 85 — will lose the social workers that are their lifeline to everything from meals-on-wheels to transportation to the doctor to crisis intervention.
• Elimination of all funding for elder abuse victim services. Leaving this hidden crisis — 96 percent of the estimated 120,000 New York City cases of abuse go unreported — to grow even worse.
• Chopping senior center budgets by $20 million. Includes the closing of 17 senior centers citywide in addition to the 26 closed in 2010. As a result, the face-to-face social network for seniors — will shut their doors. 
• Elimination of $4.1 million in borough president funds — resulting in even more closings of Queens’s senior centers and adult day care programs. 

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