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Douglas County panel: senior services have no income test; check homestead exemptions after deed changes
Summary
County senior services managers told residents there is no income requirement for congregate meals, home‑delivered meals or transportation; tax commissioner urged homeowners to verify homestead exemptions after deed changes and described a new e‑filing requirement to curb deed fraud.
Kim Smallwood, program manager at the Fairburn Road Senior Center, told a Douglas County community panel that county services for people 60 and older — including congregate meals, home‑delivered meals, homemaker services and non‑emergency medical transportation — are not income‑restricted and serve roughly 500 residents.
"We don't look at income at all," Sherry Griffith, supervisor of senior programs, said in response to a resident's question about eligibility. Griffith said the only program that uses income criteria is…
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