San Antonio’s urgent plan aims to shield seniors from soaring holiday scams by enhancing protections and education.<\/p>\n
SAN ANTONIO \u2014 A San Antonio council member is pushing a plan to stop scammers from targeting seniors.<\/p>\n
This comes in the middle of the holiday season, with online shopping and donations at an all-time high \u2014 but so are scams.<\/p>\n
The Council Consideration Request plan, or CCR for short, would create strategies to stop multiple scam angles toward seniors \u2014 from door-to-door, telephone and internet scams.<\/p>\n
In detail, District 5\u2019s Councilwoman Teri Castillo\u2019s plan would auto-enroll seniors in the state and federal Do Not Call registry.<\/p>\n
Door visits would be banned after sunset and on Sundays.<\/p>\n
And if you do go door-to-door for payment, you’d be required to show a badge or ID.<\/p>\n
Other details in the plan include collaboration with law enforcement and financial institutions. Guides and seminars would also be created to help educate seniors in the community.<\/p>\n
Last year, Family Protective Services received more than 1,100 allegations of exploitation against seniors in Bexar County.
For neglect and abuse, there were more than 8,400 cases.<\/p>\n
And that\u2019s just what\u2019s reported \u2014 the Crime Victims\u2019 Institute at Sam Houston State says only one in 25 cases of elder financial exploitation are reported.<\/p>\n
San Antonio leaders predict our senior population will grow by 40% in the next 15 years.<\/p>\n
Castillo stresses urgency, noting that right now, 13% of seniors live in poverty and need stronger protections.<\/p>\n
The CCR was filed yesterday, and Councilwoman Castillo wants it added to the Governance Committee\u2019s agenda as soon as possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Antonio’s urgent plan aims to shield seniors from soaring holiday scams by enhancing protections and education. SAN…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":431091,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5133],"tags":[5229,7202,7203,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-431090","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-san-antonio","10":"tag-sanantonio","11":"tag-texas","12":"tag-tx","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-united-states-of-america","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115678658724896443","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/431091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}