In addition, the organization is talking to members of the Senate Aging Committee about legislation to create a federal grant program to fund state efforts to protect seniors. NASAA also wants Congress to ask the Government Accountability Office to study the economic cost of senior financial exploitation.

Some states have done some of their own studies, Rothman said, “but to have that done [by the GAO to] objectively … inform Congress and all of us would be really helpful.”

 

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