QUESTION
How is MOIA addressing poverty among older immigrant adults?
1:07:29
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3 min
MOIA addresses poverty among older immigrant adults by connecting them to appropriate services and fostering partnerships with federal, state, and city agencies.
- MOIA focuses on connecting immigrants to suitable services and resources, emphasizing older adults.
- They ensure that immigrants, especially older adults, are referred to the right state agency for their specific needs.
- Partnerships with elected leaders and city, state, and federal agencies are crucial in their approach.
- Efforts include promoting free tax preparation programs with the IRS and coordinating with Social Security for up-to-date assistance.
- MOIA maintains strong relationships with federal partners, essential for immigration-related issues, to effectively meet community needs.
Alexa Avilés
1:07:29
So in terms of poverty rates are higher among older immigrant adults compared to the US born born counterparts, as we said earlier.
1:07:39
How is Moia able and working to address this specific data point.
Miguel Santana
1:07:56
1 of the pillars of the Adam's administration is to provide services regarding of age, status, or language spoken.
1:08:05
Our team is focused on referring and connecting immigrants, including our older is to the appropriate services and resources.
1:08:14
Part of this is sharing the appropriate information based on their needs.
1:08:19
So essence, when we engage with any immigrant that needs, any type of service like this, and specifically older adults, we make sure that we connect them to the appropriate SIS state agency based on their concern.
Alexa Avilés
1:08:36
So their concern is profound poverty.
1:08:39
What are we doing?
Miosotis Muñoz
1:08:40
So if I may also speak to that question, it's in we can't do this alone.
1:08:46
We have to do this in partnership partnership with our elected leaders.
1:08:52
We do this in partnership and working with our city, state, and federal agency.
1:08:56
For example, a lot of the elder adults don't take advantage of the free tax preparation.
1:09:03
So right now, during tax season, we're connecting with the IRS.
1:09:08
For free tax preparation programs and promoting that.
1:09:12
That's another way in which we can make sure that there no money left on the table that can be going to this very unique population when we're working with Social Security and we are participating in monthly updated calls so that we can track what's going on in the different borrowers and share with them hey, we need you to please come out there and help us get whatever information is needed directly from the source.
1:09:44
And in this case, we have a great relationship with, and I say, Everett Lowe, we have a in Social Security, we have a great we relationship with Brenda Luke, our taxpayer advocate within the IRS.
1:09:59
We know each other by first names.
1:10:02
We we can call them and they're out there hosting forums and collaborating with us to make sure that we're also initiating certain events based on whatever needs we've identified.
1:10:15
It's it's it's very and it's it's it's very needed that as we continue to work also with our city and state partners, that because immigration is a federal that we maintain a very good relationship with our partners there to make sure that we're able to meet the community where it's at.