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 Mayor Michael
Bloomberg recently signed a bill that will change the way an individual’s
eligibility is calculated for rent and tax increase exemption programs. Like
the Senior Citizens Rent Increase Exemption (SCRIE), the Disabled Rent Increase
Exemption (DRIE) would allow income deductions for people with disabilities.
(This signing was an update of the bill signed earlier this year.)
The bill,
Introductory number 724, was sponsored by Councilmembers Lopez, Baez, Barron,
Brewer, Clarke, Comrie, Fidler, Gerson, Gonzalez, James, Koppell, Liu, McMahon,
Monserrate, Nelson, Recchia, Seabrook, Sears, Stewart, Weprin, Gentile, Palma,
Katz, Avella, Sanders, Speaker Miller and the public advocate, Betsy
Gotbaum.
Above, Bloomberg, seated at desk, signs the bill. Present at the
signing are, left to right, Mathew Sapolin, director of the Mayor’s Office
for People with Disabilities, Sapolin’s guide dog Compass, Domenic
Recchia, councilperson (Coney Island) and Edwin Méndez-Santiago,
commissioner of the Department for the Aging.
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