Tram T. Nguyen serves as the State Representative for the 18th Essex District. which includes parts of Andover, Boxford, North Andover, and Tewksbury. A first generation Vietnamese-American, Tram was five when her family came to the U.S. as political refugees, escaping the communist regime of Vietnam. Her family settled in the Merrimack Valley, where Tram excelled in school and became the first person in her family to graduate from college at Tufts University, and she went on to graduate from Northeastern University School of Law.
Our seniors have built their lives in this community, raised families and worked hard to make our towns more prosperous and vibrant. In turn, it benefits all of us to help them to remain in our community. In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, when our seniors were at their most vulnerable, I advocated for the regional distribution of vaccines to seniors through their local COAs or community health organizations. As a legislator, I work with my colleagues to increase local aid to support programs for our aging population like Meals on Wheels and funding for the Council on Aging; together we secured additional funding for the Andover and Boxford Senior Centers in the most recent budget. I have also filed An Act relative to providing better notices and protections in process for collecting delinquent property taxes, a bill which would help seniors keep current on their property taxes so that they can keep their homes.