{"id":48189,"date":"2022-05-12T17:53:09","date_gmt":"2022-05-13T00:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=48189"},"modified":"2022-05-12T17:53:09","modified_gmt":"2022-05-13T00:53:09","slug":"bill-targets-senior-scams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=48189","title":{"rendered":"Bill targets senior scams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The House\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nxslink.thehill.com\/click\/27697099.22117\/aHR0cHM6Ly90aGVoaWxsLmNvbS9wb2xpY3kvdGVjaG5vbG9neS8zNDg0OTg2LWhvdXNlLXBhc3Nlcy1iaWxsLXRvLXByb3RlY3Qtc2VuaW9ycy1mcm9tLXNjYW1zLz9lbWFpbD1iMGJlZmIyZGFmY2UzYTg3ZTdmMTM2YmIwNjU0ZGYwNTNmODQ1M2FjJmVtYWlsYT0xYTI3NTdlMzU4MDAxYmEyNjMxOGIwMmI4NmY0MTMxMSZlbWFpbGI9YzFiNTg5MWVjODJkZTA5ZGJjZjk3M2FkNDk1NDYwMzJlY2U3OTUwZmIzYTdlN2NhODZkZDljZmNjYWJlNjliOA\/6230d8c8b246d104952dff9aB0b945bff\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/nxslink.thehill.com\/click\/27697099.22117\/aHR0cHM6Ly90aGVoaWxsLmNvbS9wb2xpY3kvdGVjaG5vbG9neS8zNDg0OTg2LWhvdXNlLXBhc3Nlcy1iaWxsLXRvLXByb3RlY3Qtc2VuaW9ycy1mcm9tLXNjYW1zLz9lbWFpbD1iMGJlZmIyZGFmY2UzYTg3ZTdmMTM2YmIwNjU0ZGYwNTNmODQ1M2FjJmVtYWlsYT0xYTI3NTdlMzU4MDAxYmEyNjMxOGIwMmI4NmY0MTMxMSZlbWFpbGI9YzFiNTg5MWVjODJkZTA5ZGJjZjk3M2FkNDk1NDYwMzJlY2U3OTUwZmIzYTdlN2NhODZkZDljZmNjYWJlNjliOA\/6230d8c8b246d104952dff9aB0b945bff&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1652482791683000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2QaWT-pStvP4iZi3PFKKT8\">voted 371-48<\/a>\u00a0Wednesday to pass a bill aimed at protecting senior citizens from increasingly frequent financial scams.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Empowering States to Protect Seniors from Bad Actors Act would create a program within the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to dole out $10 million in funding annually to investigate and stop fraud in collaboration with state securities regulators.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOlder Americans have given so much to our great country. We should always have their backs and help protect them from predators that want to take advantage of them,\u201d Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.), the bill\u2019s lead sponsor, said on the House floor Wednesday. \u201cIt is incumbent on us to protect them from scammers and abuse.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Older Americans lose an estimated $3 billion a year to financial scams, according to the Senate Special Committee on Aging.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The House\u00a0voted 371-48\u00a0Wednesday to pass a&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48190,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48189\/revisions\/48190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}