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Circuit Breaker is a program, which pays money to qualified senior and disabled citizens for part of the property taxes, rent, and other taxes they have paid. The state law providing these rebates is called "Senior Citizens and Disabled Persons Property Tax Relief and Pharmaceutical Assistance Act." The program has been nick named "Circuit Breaker" because it helps protect the income of senior and disabled persons from tax overload in the same way a household circuit breaker protects wiring from an overload of electrical current.

For more information on this program or to apply for Circuit Breaker please contact the 47th Ward Public Service Office at (773) 348-8400 or email us at ward47@cityofchicago.org for us to mail one out to you.