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91_HB1559
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1 AN ACT to amend the Senior Citizens and Disabled Persons
2 Property Tax Relief and Pharmaceutical Assistance Act by
3 changing Section 5.
4 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
5 represented in the General Assembly:
6 Section 5. The Senior Citizens and Disabled Persons
7 Property Tax Relief and Pharmaceutical Assistance Act is
8 amended by changing Section 5 as follows:
9 (320 ILCS 25/5) (from Ch. 67 1/2, par. 405)
10 Sec. 5. Procedure.
11 (a) In general. Claims must be filed after January 1, on
12 forms prescribed by the Department. No claim may be filed
13 more than one year after December 31 of the year for which
14 the claim is filed except that claims for 1976 may be filed
15 until December 31, 1978. The pharmaceutical assistance
16 identification card provided for in subsection (g) of Section
17 4 shall be valid for a period not to exceed one year.
18 (b) Claim is Personal. The right to file a claim under
19 this Act shall be personal to the claimant and shall not
20 survive his death, but such right may be exercised on behalf
21 of a claimant by his legal guardian or attorney-in-fact. If a
22 claimant dies after having filed a timely claim, the amount
23 thereof shall be disbursed to his surviving spouse or, if no
24 spouse survives, to his surviving dependent minor children in
25 equal parts, provided the spouse or child, as the case may
26 be, resided with the claimant at the time he filed his claim.
27 If at the time of disbursement neither the claimant nor his
28 spouse is surviving, and no dependent minor children of the
29 claimant are surviving the amount of the claim shall escheat
30 to the State.
31 (c) One claim per household. Only one member of a
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1 household may file a claim under this Act in any calendar
2 year; where both members of a household are otherwise
3 entitled to claim a grant under this Act, they must agree as
4 to which of them will file a claim for that year.
5 (d) Content of application form. The form prescribed by
6 the Department for purposes of paragraph (a) shall include a
7 table, appropriately keyed to the parts of the form on which
8 the claimant is required to furnish information, which will
9 enable the claimant to determine readily the approximate
10 amount of grant to which he is entitled by relating levels of
11 household income to property taxes accrued or rent
12 constituting property taxes accrued.
13 (e) Pharmaceutical Assistance Procedures. The
14 Department shall establish the form and manner for
15 application, and establish by January 1, 1986 a procedure to
16 enable persons to apply for the additional grant or for the
17 pharmaceutical assistance identification card on the same
18 application form.
19 (f) Payment designation. Upon request, the Department
20 must provide to an individual allowed payments under this Act
21 a form to designate another address to receive the payments
22 instead of the individual's residence. The individual may
23 rescind the designation of another address to receive the
24 payments at any time in the manner required by the
25 Department. The Department must determine by rule a
26 reasonable manner in which to verify the address designation
27 of the individual to ensure proper payment receipt.
28 (Source: P.A. 83-1531.)