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 1        AN ACT in relation to aging.

 2        Be  it  enacted  by  the People of the State of Illinois,
 3    represented in the General Assembly:

 4        Section 5.  The  Senior  Citizens  and  Disabled  Persons
 5    Property  Tax  Relief  and  Pharmaceutical  Assistance Act is
 6    amended by changing Section 5 as follows:

 7        (320 ILCS 25/5) (from Ch. 67 1/2, par. 405)
 8        Sec. 5.  Procedure.
 9        (a)  In general.  Claims must be filed after  January  1,
10    on forms prescribed by the Department.  No claim may be filed
11    more  than  one  year after December 31 of the year for which
12    the claim is filed except that claims for 1976 may  be  filed
13    until  December  31,  1978.   The  pharmaceutical  assistance
14    identification card provided for in subsection (f) of Section
15    4 shall be valid for a period not to exceed one year.  On and
16    after  January  1, 2002, however, to enable the Department to
17    convert coverage  for  a  pharmaceutical  assistance  program
18    participant  to  a  State  fiscal year basis, a card shall be
19    valid  for  a  longer  or  shorter  period  than  12  months,
20    depending on  the  date  a  timely  claim  is  filed  and  as
21    determined  by  the  Department.  All applicants for benefits
22    under this program approved for benefits on or after  July  1
23    but  on  or  before  December 31 of any State fiscal year are
24    eligible for benefits through June 30 of  that  State  fiscal
25    year.    All  applicants  for  benefits  under  this  program
26    approved for benefits on or after January 1 but on or  before
27    June  30  of  any State fiscal year are eligible for benefits
28    through June 30 of the following State fiscal year.
29        (b)  Claim is Personal.  The right to file a claim  under
30    this  Act  shall  be  personal  to the claimant and shall not
31    survive his death, but such right may be exercised on  behalf
 
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 1    of  a claimant by his legal guardian or attorney-in-fact.  If
 2    a claimant dies after having filed a timely claim, the amount
 3    thereof shall be disbursed to his surviving spouse or, if  no
 4    spouse survives, to his surviving dependent minor children in
 5    equal  parts,  provided  the spouse or child, as the case may
 6    be, resided with the claimant at the time he filed his claim.
 7    If at the time of disbursement neither the claimant  nor  his
 8    spouse  is  surviving, and no dependent minor children of the
 9    claimant are surviving the amount of the claim shall  escheat
10    to the State.
11        (c)  One  claim  per  household.   Only  one  member of a
12    household may file a claim under this  Act  in  any  calendar
13    year;  where  both  members  of  a  household  are  otherwise
14    entitled  to claim a grant under this Act, they must agree as
15    to which of them will file a claim for that year.
16        (d)  Content of application form.  The form prescribed by
17    the Department for purposes of paragraph (a) shall include  a
18    table,  appropriately keyed to the parts of the form on which
19    the claimant is required to furnish information,  which  will
20    enable  the  claimant  to  determine  readily the approximate
21    amount of grant to which he is entitled by relating levels of
22    household  income  to  property   taxes   accrued   or   rent
23    constituting property taxes accrued.
24        (e)  Pharmaceutical     Assistance    Procedures.     The
25    Department  shall  establish  the   form   and   manner   for
26    application,  and  shall  establish  by  January  1,  1986  a
27    procedure to enable persons to apply for the additional grant
28    or  for  the pharmaceutical assistance identification card on
29    the same application form.  The  Department  shall  determine
30    eligibility   for   pharmaceutical   assistance   using   the
31    applicant's current income.  The Department shall determine a
32    person's  current  income  in  the  manner  provided  by  the
33    Department by rule.
34    (Source:  P.A.  91-533,  eff.  8-13-99;  91-699, eff. 1-1-01;
 
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 1    92-131, eff. 7-23-01; 92-519, eff. 1-1-02.)