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And let the children soar. Look at me and what ive done and you can do it too. She was winning all the events. An america tonight special, overcoming disabilities. Thanks for joining us. Im joie chen. Millions of americans live with disabilities. Overcoming barriers both physical and social that once seemed insurmountable. But even with those successes, many face obstacles that could be eliminated by a stroke of a pen. An obstacle that forces many to live in poverty. We begin with the story of a remarkable young woman who has helped to lead the fight to allow those who live with disabilities e...

Senate special aging committee. This is an hour and a half. Good afternoon. It is my great pleasure to call to order the very first hearing of the Senate Special committee on aging. In the 114th congress i have had the honor of being a member of this committee since my very first days in the United States senate and i am delighted to now assume the chairmanship. This is the first time that a maine senator has chaired the committee since the mid1990s when my predecessor and good friend senator bill cohen for whom i worked for 12 years served as the committees chair. Im also pleased to welcome n...

Costing us. There are 14,000 new reports each year of senior abuse which includes financial exploitation. In as many as 90 of financial cases, the senior is victimized by someone he or she knows well w. Unfortunately the real case is even worse. Many of the cases are never reported because they are not going to report financial exploitation, particularly when it involves a Family Member. As a consequence the true incidence of this abuse is not known. Identifying victims is particularly difficult because we maners take a look. In addition since victims who have had their assets stolen by Family...

With the clients financial records which aps must have to substantiate substantiate. Are permed under statutory acceptance to prevent fraud and authorized investigation. A revised federal guidance clarifying the client records may be shared with aps in a timely manner would mean Financial Abuse could be stopped much earlier. I believe financial snugs would welcome this clarification. Secondly, Financial Institutions should be granted authority to temporarily freeze accounts when theres evidence the owner is being defrauded, for example, sending money to a jamaican lottery scam in time to conta...

Kept us from achieving solutions. We must identify those who are in the best position to determine red flags early on and encourage reporting to other governmental agencies. In maine we discovered one of the most valuable rediscourse among others to develop senior life. Senior life was created to increase identification and report reporting it. Prior to this, we met with representatives from the banks and Credit Unions to identify barriers to reporting abuse and financial exploitation. What we learned is the system lacked a feed back laup so often. Training is involved of three components. Fro...