Calendar This-Senate Committee on Aging

On January 14, 2014 at 2:15 p.m., the Senate Committee on Aging will hold a hearing “to examine aging in comfort, focusing on assessing the special needs of America’s Holocaust survivors.” 

Earlier, Vice-President Biden announced that the President’s administration plans to appoint an “envoy” with Health and Human Services to liaise between survivors and the non-profits that provide services. According to the article, of the 100,000 survivors in the U.S., 25% are below poverty.  The envoy will help “by coordinating assistance, working with aid groups and using diplomatic means to help recover property confiscated during the Nazi era.”