QUESTION
How are older adults without Social Security or pensions surviving in New York City?
1:17:47
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The New York City Department for the Aging lacks detailed information on older adults without Social Security or pensions, making it difficult to track their survival strategies.
- The department indicates a need to defer to federal partners for detailed information on this demographic.
- Council Member Gale Brewer highlights the struggle of older adults, especially vendors, who lack traditional financial safety nets.
- The discussion points to the challenges in obtaining numbers on older adults surviving without Social Security or pensions.
- Federal programs are mentioned as a potential source of information, though it's noted that the individuals in question likely aren't part of such programs due to their lack of Social Security and pensions.
Gale Brewer
1:17:47
Social, so security and pension are very hard to come by if you've been a vendor your whole life and you don't have any paper.
1:17:54
So do we have any numbers on those individuals who are maybe surviving with family or getting rent paid by family, etcetera, etcetera, but don't have any documents implementation.
1:18:05
Do we have any numbers on those individuals who are older adults in New York?
Anya Herasme
1:18:12
I don't believe we wouldn't have that kind of detail.
1:18:15
And also, you know, unless the client is working with us, we we wouldn't necessarily have the global information on that, you know, all older New Yorkers if they've never anywhere program.
Gale Brewer
1:18:24
So you don't have that information.
1:18:25
I know.
1:18:26
We
Penney Vachiraprapun
1:18:26
we'd have to defer to our federal partners for for those Sure.
Gale Brewer
1:18:29
Which partners for to our federal partners for Your federal partners.
Crystal Hudson
1:18:33
Those are
Gale Brewer
1:18:33
Why would they know?
Penney Vachiraprapun
1:18:34
Because those are federal programs.
Gale Brewer
1:18:36
Okay.
1:18:37
But, well, these folks have no Social Security and no pensions.
1:18:40
I don't know what programs they might be in.
Penney Vachiraprapun
1:18:42
Oh, I I apologize.
1:18:44
I thought you were asking asking specifically about federal program.
Gale Brewer
1:18:47
No.
1:18:47
No.
1:18:47
No.
1:18:47
I'm saying there are many many I have many friends who have parents are former vendors, for instance, right, on the street, and they have no pension and no Social Security.
1:18:57
They don't.
1:18:58
They just don't.
1:18:58
So, you know, family sometimes takes care of them, but they're they're struggling.
1:19:02
Right?
