Frequently Asked Tax Questions About Social Security Income
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This web page answers common tax questions about Social Security income.
By: Internal Revenue Service, Department of the Treasury
Property Tax Relief for Seniors and Veterans with Disabilities
Georgia law provides property tax and school tax benefits to senior citizens and to veterans with disabilities. Please be aware that this web page gives only a general description of the Georgia tax benefits. Your situation may be different enough so that the general rules will not apply.
By: Elder Law Committee of State Bar of Georgia
Tax Counseling for the Elderly Program
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This document, in PDF format, lists all of the sites in Georgia where individuals age 60 and older can get free tax assistance.
By: AARP Tax-Aide and Internal Revenue Service, Department of the Treasury
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Living Wills and Durable Powers of Attorney: Control Over Health Care Decisions
Alternatives to Guardianship - With Advance Directives When a person is sick or preparing for a future stay in the hospital, there can sometimes be confusion about what the person?s wishes are for his or her own treatment. There might be disagreement among family members about the person's decisions concerning his or her health care. Advance Directives allow an person to make decisions in advance about his or her health care in writing. This lets the person make his own life decisions, lets everyone know what those decisions are, and keeps the family from having to make those decisions for the person after the person is sick. This document explains the different kinds of advance directives, including the Living Will, the Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care and the Do Not Resuscitate Order.
By: Georgia Department of Human Resources, Division of Aging Services
Details of My Final Arrangements This document helps you sort out your thoughts (and write them out) about how you want things to be managed upon your death, including information about your will, your advance directives (living will and durable power of attorney), your insurance policies, bank accounts, your desires for funeral services, burial arrangements and any additional requests that are not contained in your will.
By: Department of Human Resources, Division of Aging Services
End of Life Planning: DO NOT RESUSCITATE ORDER
There are often many questions about who has the authority to approve orders not to resuscitate a person or to approve a ?No Code.? The law in Georgia is very specific and there are circumstances when regardless of a person?s wishes, that order cannot be carried out in the person?s current location.
By: Georgia Department of Human Resources, Division of Aging Services
Temporary Health Care Placement Decisionmakers: when you need to move from hospital to nursing home
The legislature recognizes that there may be times when an adult has not made advance arrangements for a situation when he or she is unable to consent to his or her own admission to or discharge from one health care facility or placement or transfer to another health care facility or placement. When those times arise, it may be necessary and in the adult's best interest to be admitted to or discharged from one health care facility or placement or transferred to an alternative facility or placement.
By: Georgia Department of Human Resources, Division of Aging Services
The Facts About Financial Powers of Attorney
Learn what you need to know about advance directives.
By: Atlanta Legal Aid Society
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