LOHUD--SCHOOL DISTRICTS SLOW TO ENACT TAX BREAKS FOR SENIOR CITIZENS---HERE'S WHY----DAVID McKAY WILSON

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School districts slow to enact tax breaks for senior citizens. Here's why
David McKay Wilson--Rockland/Westchester Journal News

Susan Cooper, a 68-year-old art therapist who has lived in her Hastings-on-Hudson home since 1998, was heartened when she learned of the state’s most generous property tax exemption, which can cut one’s property’s assessment by as much 50%.

It looked promising for Cooper, who earns $50,000 a year at the White Plains Hospital’s Center for Cancer Care, and creates dramatic large-scale paintings in the studio behind her Warburton Avenue home.

But to get the full bang for the exemption buck, all of her taxing jurisdictions needed to approve the increase in the program's income limit. MORE AT Hudson Valley schools slow to enact savings for low-income seniors (lohud.com)