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A bipartisan proposal to fight elder financial abuse is getting consideration in Congress.
The invoice — the Financial Exploitation Prevention Act — would give the monetary trade new methods to handle suspected monetary abuse of seniors or bodily or mentally disabled people.
Older adults over age 60 lose an estimated $28.3 billion per yr from prison theft, based on a 2023 AARP report. Most of these losses — 72% — are perpetrated by somebody they know, resembling a member of the family, pal or caregiver, based on the report.
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On Wednesday, Sens. Invoice Hagerty, R-Tenn., and Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., reintroduced the invoice to the Senate for the second time. The invoice was beforehand launched within the Senate in 2023.
A Home model of the invoice put ahead in March, which was sponsored by Reps. Ann Wagner, R-Mo., and Josh Gottheimer, D-N.J., was unanimously authorized by the Home Monetary Providers Committee on Tuesday.
Each variations of the invoice would require the Securities and Trade Fee to report back to Congress on methods to stop monetary exploitation of aged and susceptible adults via laws and regulation.
The laws would additionally enable sure monetary establishments to delay transactions that increase suspicions of monetary exploitation. Registered open-end funding corporations or switch brokers for these corporations, together with mutual funds, would be capable of delay the redemption interval for any redeemable safety transaction that raises suspicions of monetary exploitation.
The Home model of the invoice handed the Monetary Providers Committee with a 50 to 0 vote. In a statement, Wagner stated she seems ahead to the entire Home taking on the invoice.
