[Nfbmo] Judge finds blind people owed 30 million

[Bryan Schulz]

maybe so but how many would have moved if you had to be a resident for at 
least five years to be eligible?
That says something about the person.
that's all I'll say.
Bryan Schulz


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dewey Bradley" <dewey.bradley at mchsi.com>
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Sent: Sunday, April 04, 2010 4:27 PM
Subject: Re: [Nfbmo] Judge finds blind people owed 30 million


> Same here, I can't say that I blame them either.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Bryan Schulz" <b.schulz at sbcglobal.net>
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> Sent: Sunday, April 04, 2010 2:42 PM
> Subject: Re: [Nfbmo] Judge finds blind people owed 30 million
>
>
>> you want to talk hypocritical/ethics?
>> i know several people who moved to mo for the bucks.
>>
>> Bryan Schulz
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Dewey Bradley" <dewey.bradley at mchsi.com>
>> To: "NFB of Missouri Mailing List" <nfbmo at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Sunday, April 04, 2010 1:20 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Nfbmo] Judge finds blind people owed 30 million
>>
>>
>>>I don't mean to be a hypocrite. But That $651 on the 10th of every month 
>>>really is very helpful.
>>> But we have also have people who are not disabled who can't get help 
>>> like that.
>>> I think that if we want to be treated like everyone else we need to act 
>>> like everyone else.
>>> I used to make close to 16 bucks an hour, an I took the bus for half 
>>> price
>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>> From: "David Andrews" <dandrews at visi.com>
>>> To: "NFB of Missouri Mailing List" <nfbmo at nfbnet.org>
>>> Sent: Saturday, April 03, 2010 10:08 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [Nfbmo] Judge finds blind people owed 30 million
>>>
>>>
>>>> Can I be a "back dated" honorary Missourian?
>>>>
>>>> Dave
>>>>
>>>> At 04:26 PM 4/2/2010, you wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>Posted: Friday, 02 April 2010 12:12PM
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>Judge awards $30 million to blind Missourians
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>KMOXNews at kmox.com
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>ST. LOUIS (AP)  -- Missouri owes $30 million to 3,300 blind residents 
>>>>>to make up for years of shortchanging payments to them through the 
>>>>>Blind Pension Fund,
>>>>>
>>>>>a judge has ruled.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>Cole County Judge Patricia Joyce determined the Missouri Department of 
>>>>>Social Services miscalculated benefits dating to 1992. She awarded 
>>>>>nearly $19 million
>>>>>
>>>>>in unpaid benefits and more than $11 million in interest.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>It wasn't clear Friday whether the state would appeal Thursday's 
>>>>>decision. A Social Services spokesman referred questions to the 
>>>>>Missouri Attorney General's
>>>>>
>>>>>office. A spokeswoman for the attorney general did not return messages 
>>>>>seeking comment.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>Pensioners were underpaid for more than a decade, said attorney Deborah 
>>>>>Greider, who filed the class action lawsuit on behalf of the St. 
>>>>>Louis-based Missouri
>>>>>
>>>>>Council of the Blind and seven blind Missourians. After the lawsuit was 
>>>>>filed about five years ago, Missouri recalculated the pension and now 
>>>>>pays a fair
>>>>>
>>>>>amount, she said.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>The average blind pensioner now receives about $651 a month from the 
>>>>>state, and for many, that is their only income.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>"Most of these people are poor and unemployed, many are elderly," 
>>>>>Greider said. She recalled testimony from one blind woman who was asked 
>>>>>what an additional
>>>>>
>>>>>$40 a month would mean to her.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>"She said, 'I could feed my guide dog better, I could get a pizza once 
>>>>>in a while,'" Greider said. "It was really heartbreaking."
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>Denny Huff, president of the Missouri Council of the Blind, said the 
>>>>>state shorted people who were already on tight budgets.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>"To be denied even a percentage of what they should have been receiving 
>>>>>may not seem like much to some people," he said, "but for a lot of 
>>>>>recipients, it
>>>>>
>>>>>affected them a great deal."
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>The Missouri Constitution has required the General Assembly since 1875 
>>>>>to levy an annual property tax to fund the Blind Pension Fund. But 
>>>>>starting in 1992,
>>>>>
>>>>>the state began using some of the money for other expenses, Greider 
>>>>>said.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>For example, some of the money goes to rehabilitation services for the 
>>>>>blind. But Greider said the pensions should be fully funded first, with 
>>>>>leftover
>>>>>
>>>>>money going for rehab services.
>>>>
>>>>
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