The Neighborhood Team is said to provide free home improvement services to qualifying St. Pete homeowners who are elderly, disabled, or low-income. <\/p>\n
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2014 Like many Americans, 71-year-old Joanne Newton is searching for mobility solutions as movement has gotten tougher over the years.<\/p>\n
“Knee trouble, back trouble,” Newton said. “I had several injuries.”<\/p>\n
Newton says, each day, she’s had to pay more attention to what areas are accessible and mobility friendly.<\/p>\n
For neighbors like Newton, St. Pete’s most recent newsletter highlighted “The Neighborhood Team<\/a>” to help folks impacted by mobility issues.<\/p>\n It’s a group that’s said to provide free home improvement services to qualifying St. Pete homeowners who are elderly, disabled, or low-income and are unable to make repairs on their own.<\/p>\n That includes materials and labor for items like ramps, handrails, and grab bars.<\/p>\n David Kuper of Suncoast Medical Supply<\/a> says this local program, coupled with new changes to a federal law<\/a>, could be a life-saver.<\/p>\n Before, if you had a disability diagnosis prior to the age of 26, you would be eligible for a tax-free savings account to cover certain disability expenses.<\/p>\n Now, that age has been bumped up from 26 to 46, opening the benefit to a new range of Americans.<\/p>\n “It’s wonderful,” Kuper said. “Any help that they can get really goes a long way.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Neighborhood Team is said to provide free home improvement services to qualifying St. Pete homeowners who are…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113356,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":{"0":"post-113355","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-st-petersburg","8":"tag-st-pete","9":"tag-st-pete-headlines","10":"tag-st-pete-news","11":"tag-st-petersburg","12":"tag-st-petersburg-headlines","13":"tag-st-petersburg-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}