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