The Senior LinkAge Line has expertise in the areas of: Medicare. Prescription Drug Expense assistance for Minnesotans of all ages. Health Insurance Counseling. Forms assistance, including help applying for Medical Assistance and Medicare options. Long-term Care Insurance, including the Long-term Care Partnership.
800-333-2433 The Senior LinkAge Line can help Minnesotans with many age-related issues and can answer questions and help with: Health insurance counseling - including Medicare, long-term care planning and prescription drug costs. Forms assistance, including help applying for Medical Assistance and Medicare Extra Help.
Minnesota Senior Care Plus (MSC+) is a program offered to those in our 7-county service area (see service area map) who are 65 years of age or older and are eligible for Medical Assistance. The MSC+ program includes all your regular Medical Assistance benefits, as well as Elderly Waiver services (if eligible).
Help older adults in your community - call 800-333-2433.
Senior citizens are also known as elderly persons or simply as seniors. Categorically, a senior citizen is a social demographic based on age. Someone who is 35, for example, cannot be a senior. Being a senior citizen typically means that a person is at the age at which they retire from work.
As defined in Minn. Stat. § 135A. 51 a senior citizen is a legal resident of Minnesota who has reached 62 years of age before the beginning of any term, in which a course of study is pursued, or a person receiving a railroad retirement annuity who has reached 60 years of age before the beginning of the term.
A number of incentives have been provided under the Income Tax Act, 1961, to a senior citizen (ie., an individual, resident in India, who is of the age of 60 years or more at any time during the relevant previous year).
The Senior Citizens Property Tax Deferral Program allows property taxpayers who are 65 years or older, and whose total household income is $96,000 or less, to defer a portion of their homestead property taxes until some later time.
(a) "Senior citizen" means a person who is 62 years of age or older. (b) "Disabled person" means a person who has an impairment of physical or mental function or emotional status that substantially limits one or more major life activities.
In general, however, once you turn 55 you start to enter the senior age demographic. By the time you are 65 you reach the most common age for retirement from your job. However, an increasing number of senior citizens are working after 65, so retirement can no longer be a key factor in becoming a senior.