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Additionally, it would require DEP to scrub their rolls of seniors who may be eligible for additional tax credits and rebates but don't currently receive them. But the bill won't help the people now threatened with a lien sale.

The 7,045 properties facing lien sales under current law owed a combined total of $33.8 million as of May 1. To avoid placement on the list of properties with liens eligible for sale, owners of those properties were required to have rectified matters—repay everything or enter into a payment plan—by Friday.