NYC Now Required to Educate Seniors on Scams
A new law requires New York City’s Department of Consumer Affairs to conduct outreach to educate senior citizens about scams.
The bill, sponsored by Councilman Chaim Deutsch and signed into law by Mayor Bill de Blasio Wednesday, “is a key step towards helping to prevent seniors from losing their hard-earned savings to opportunists,” Deutsch, a Midwood Democrat, said in a statement Thursday.
Currently, one in five seniors will become a victim of a scam, which takes billions of dollars each year.
“This week alone my office received a call from a constituent who was scammed out of $11,000 through a telemarketing scheme,” Deutsch said.
This article appeared in print on page 5 of edition of Hamodia.
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