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It's tax rebate time!!
People who are 65 or older, or who are disabled, have until the end of 2010 to receive property tax rebates for 2009 if they own their home or rent it. The maximum rebate this year is at least $650. Homeowners can receive a rebate if their income is as much as $35,000, excluding half of Social Security income. Renters are eligible if their income is below $15,000 excluding half of Social Security income. Aside from those 65 and older, and those who are permanently disabled, widows or widowers 50 and older also can apply. For more information go here.
In the spirit of Faith In Action, we welcome care recipients and volunteers from other congregations, or no congregation -- the unaffiliated, the agnostic and the atheist.
Our founding congregations are Luther Memorial Lutheran Church, Ohev Sholom Congregation, St. John the Baptist Episcopal Church, St. Joseph’s Catholic Church, Temple Beth Israel and the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of York.
Some of the congregations have additional programs for elders.
St. John's offers a parish nurse, Kathy Mosso, as well as a social group for those 60 and older.
The Unitarian Universalist Congregation has a care committee, headed by Molly March, that tends to ailing members of the congregation. And women 75 or so and older are getting together after the service on the fourth Sunday of the month to chat; for more information email gloriajh77@aol.com.
St. Joseph's has an active health ministry headed by Sister Mary Sheehan, and a squad of eucharistic ministers tending to the homebound.
Luther Memorial also has eucharistic ministers, and Pastor Liz Polanzke works hard to ensure all homebound members receive communion if they want.
Also, through Jewish Family Services of York, a bikur cholim program tends to the sick from Ohev Sholom and Temple Beth Israel; JFS also offers monthly lunch groups for elder men and women, and an active knitting circle. JFS can be reached here, or at 843-5011.