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Honoka’a residents Miles Okumura and Lynn Higashi have been selected by AARP, the nonprofit organization for people 50 and older, to receive the 2024 AARP Hawai`iAndrus Award for Community Service, the Association’s most prestigious and visible state volunteer award for community service.
The AARP Foundation is recruiting friendly and service-oriented people throughout Hawai`i to join its Tax-Aide volunteer team. Tax-Aide is the nation’s largest free, volunteer-based tax assistance and preparation program. During the 2024 tax season, almost 28,000 volunteers served over 1.7 million taxpayers. Tax-Aide participants saved more than $1.3 billion in refunds and credits.
As it advocates for a paid family-leave bill, AARP Hawai‘i is looking for personal stories about the challenges unpaid caregivers face.
Savings Possible Thanks to the Prescription Drug Law Championed by AARP
During the 2025 legislative session, AARP Wisconsin will push lawmakers to pass a state tax credit of up to $500 to help offset expenses—such as adult day care, assistive technology or home modifications—that family caregivers incur.
Maudie Scott’s view of what constitutes a community—its scars, attributes and potential—started taking shape when, at age 10, she joined her sharecropper parents in harvesting South Carolina tobacco. The field owner’s children, who were white, also gathered leaves during the fall harvest.
Across the Northeast, AARP state offices are currently recruiting new volunteers to serve in a variety of roles. And those who volunteer now say their work—on everything from fraud prevention to legislative advocacy—is highly rewarding.
Montana voters strongly favor keeping Medicaid expansion in the state, as well as the creation of a new tax credit for family caregiver expenses, a recent AARP poll shows.
Susie Marks built her career in advocacy. But even when she’s off the clock, she’s still an advocate, volunteering for AARP as it champions issues at the Arkansas State Legislature.
Eight entities received AARP Community Challenge grants in Pennsylvania this year, for a total of $86,500.
Four projects across the state received AARP Community Challenge grants for quick-action projects intended to boost local services and spaces.
AARP Hawai‘i will gather its members for Gov. Josh Green’s State of the State address before the State Legislature in January. Those coming are urged to wear red AARP shirts to be a visual presence for the governor and lawmakers.
Nine entities across the Tar Heel State received AARP Community Challenge grants in 2024 for quick-action projects to help make communities more livable.
A new state law that took effect in September is aimed at educating Delaware consumers about gift card scams.
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