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One third of U.S. adults say they have been targeted by scams seeking payment by gift card, according to a report by the AARP Fraud Watch Network. And nearly a quarter of consumers have given or received gift cards that had no funds on them. 

Volunteers from across Virginia thanked at virtual ceremony

Free Resources Identify Top Scams Facing Virginia’s Military Community and Ways to Fight Back

AARP presents 103,486 petitions from Virginians who need lower drug prices.

We have a team of volunteer reporters who cover events and write feature articles to tell the AARP story in Virginia. We have a lot going on, and we need more volunteer reporters to cover our events.

Here in Virginia, staff cases spiked dramatically from a rate of 1.23 per 100 residents in December to 18.6 in January, the highest since the pandemic began. Resident cases increased nearly 10-fold from a rate of 1.49 to 14.4 per 100 residents during this same period, also the highest since the pandemic began. Nursing home resident deaths from COVID-19 more than doubled from a rate of .15 in December to .37 per 100 residents in January.

Six lawmakers to decide fate of nursing home staffing bills

House Bill 646 would establish minimum hourly staffing standards for facilities

AARP Virginia today released the following statement from State Advocacy Director Natalie Snider after Senate Bill 376 was referred to the Senate Commerce & Labor committee for consideration.

Virginia’s General Assembly is in session, and AARP Virginia is urging lawmakers to protect vulnerable people and their families by addressing long-standing and well-known problems in the nursing home industry.