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TRENTON – A measure sponsored by Senators Fred H. Madden and Jeff Van Drew, which would expand New Jersey’s Homestead Property Tax Reimbursement program to help more seniors and disabled residents was unanimously approved today by the full Senate.

“As the economy continues to change, quite a few of our older and disabled residents find themselves having to move to more affordable homes,” said Senator Madden, D-Camden and Gloucester, who first sponsored this legislation in 2004. “The impetus for this bill came from one of my Gloucester County constituents who was in this predicament. This bill would help to permit residents who would normally qualify for the homestead reimbursement program, but decide to move – out of necessity or otherwise, to receive these benefits.”