Senior Protection

1) I have proposed increasing penalties for scam artists who prey on senior citizens. I will continue to advocate for such a measure, and I will prosecute these scam artists agressively.

2) To empower seniors and their families when faced with this type of crime, I plan to establish the Senior Citizen Consumer Fraud Hotline, a simple way to report and get questions answers about consumer and financial fraud.

3)I will vigorously pursue abuse and exploitation of the elderly in nursing homes and by in-home care provides.

4) I will thoroughly investigate the growing practice of reverse mortgages, which can be very harmful for seniors on fixed incomes if the reverse mortgages contain hidden charges, or are paired with annuities that do not pay a fair rate.