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AARP Vermont

Giving voice to the concerns and interests of older Vermonters
APR 23, 2025
Drive-up and drop-off your personal documents for free!
APR 21, 2025
Tune in on May 14 for a Telephone Town Hall Event
APR 21, 2025
On April 16, AARP Vermont Associate State Director of Advocacy Colin Hilliard presented testimony to the Vermont House Ways and Means Committee in support of S.51. This bill would provide individuals who provide uncompensated care a refundable credit against their personal income tax liability valued up to $1,000 if certain income, familial, and time requirements are met.
APR 10, 2025
Tune in to ask your questions live with Charlie!
There's a host of ways our Medicare system, and your account, are being scammed by crooks every day. The video below will open you eyes to how these scams work and how to protect you and your loved ones from being the next victim.
In 2019, Vermonters filed 5,447 scam reports with the Attorney General’s Consumer Assistance Program (CAP). As old scams persisted, new scams emerged. According to the Attorney General’s list of top 10 most commonly reported scams of the year, the Social Security number phishing scam surpassed the IRS scam, knocking it out of the top spot as the most common scam. This phone scam involves calls claiming that your Social Security number has been compromised, suspended, and/or linked to criminal activity. The phony grandchild is also still popular.
Want to help combat scammers? AARP Vermont is looking for more fraud fighting volunteers to staff tables and give talks.
AARP Vermont State Director Greg Marchildon released the following statement on Dec. 18 upon the passage of FY 2020 appropriations bills H.R. 1158 and H.R. 1865:
Over 4 million Americans at risk of surprise tax increase if medical expense deduction not extended.
Bill Would Improve Weaknesses in Caller ID Cited in Recent AARP Survey
AARP Vermont and partners developed the Better Places: Place-Based Crowdgranting Program to explore more collaborative funding for community projects.
Retail prices for 267 brand-name drugs commonly used by older adults surged by an average of 5.8% in 2018, more than twice the general inflation rate of 2.4%, according to new AARP Public Policy Institute (PPI) data released today. The annual average cost of therapy for one brand-name drug ballooned to more than $7,200 in 2018, up from nearly $1,900 in 2006.
AARP Vermont is recruiting volunteers for the 2020 tax season.
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