For nearly a decade, my fellow tenant and I, both seniors in Palmyra, have received our Pennsylvania rent rebates without issue. We are unrelated, do not cohabit and share no other connection. Our arrangement is simple: we each have separate leases and live like boarding-house residents.
In 2017, the Board of Appeals itself reviewed our situation and approved rebates for both of us. This year, the Department of Revenue suddenly denied both applications, citing the vague “one household” rule. The Board of Appeals then made an outrageous demand: that I prove my previous landlord reported our rent payments as income on their tax return. That request is ridiculous.
When my fellow tenant appealed, the denial letter contained an outright falsehood: it claimed I was “already receiving the rebate for 2024, for both rental properties.” That never happened, and so my second appeal is still pending…