[Nfbmo] Judge finds blind people owed 30 million

Dewey Bradley dewey.bradley at mchsi.com
Mon Apr 5 00:12:59 UTC 2010


They should make something like that.
If everyone keeps coming here, there going to drain the fund.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bryan Schulz" <b.schulz at sbcglobal.net>
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Subject: Re: [Nfbmo] Judge finds blind people owed 30 million


> 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
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>
>
>> Same here, I can't say that I blame them either.
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Bryan Schulz" <b.schulz at sbcglobal.net>
>> To: "NFB of Missouri Mailing List" <nfbmo at nfbnet.org>
>> 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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