[Nfbmo] Missouri appeals court overturns blind pension ruling

Bryan Schulz b.schulz at sbcglobal.net
Thu Jun 30 14:54:15 UTC 2011


hi,

if you are halfway informed about the program, you also know it would take a 
constitutional change to eliminate the program.
i would say some of the people owed will be dead by the time it is settled.

Bryan Schulz

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dewey Bradley" <deweybradley at att.net>
To: "NFB of Missouri Mailing List" <nfbmo at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2011 7:55 AM
Subject: Re: [Nfbmo] Missouri appeals court overturns blind pension ruling


> I'm just afraid we are going to draw attention to it, and they will cut 
> it, just like every other state has done.
> allot of blind people do not understand that money don't grow on trees.
> We have an out dated and under used school for the blind, but they want to 
> keep it open, but we are broke.
> Missouri is good to blind people, but some people are going to mess that 
> up.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Gene Coulter" <escoulter at centurytel.net>
> To: "NFB of Missouri Mailing List" <nfbmo at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2011 10:48 PM
> Subject: Re: [Nfbmo] Missouri appeals court overturns blind pension ruling
>
>
>> That is the $23 million question. With the state having closed 7 Family
>> Support offices in the last 6 months and not hiring anyone but the most
>> critical positions it is fair to say that paying the money would be a 
>> major
>> challenge.
>> And it is not like the Federal government as they cannot simply print 
>> more
>> money.
>> That is a very profound question but currently I fear one that cannot be
>> answered.
>> Gene
>>
>> From: Dewey Bradley
>> Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2011 10:23 PM
>> To: NFB of Missouri Mailing List
>> Subject: Re: [Nfbmo] Missouri appeals court overturns blind pension 
>> ruling
>>
>> If they have to pay us back, where are they going to get the money?
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Gary Wunder" <GWunder at earthlink.net>
>> To: "'NFB of Missouri Mailing List'" <nfbmo at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2011 9:27 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Nfbmo] Missouri appeals court overturns blind pension 
>> ruling
>>
>>
>>> This is how I read it as well.
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: nfbmo-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfbmo-bounces at nfbnet.org] On 
>>> Behalf
>>> Of fred olver
>>> Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2011 4:27 PM
>>> To: NFB of Missouri Mailing List
>>> Subject: Re: [Nfbmo] Missouri appeals court overturns blind pension 
>>> ruling
>>>
>>> The fact that this case has been over-turned may be true, however if you
>>> take the time to read the story you will find that it says that the
>>> benefits
>>>
>>> will need to be re-calculated, not that the case was thrown out.
>>>
>>> Fred Olver
>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>> From: "Gary Wunder" <GWunder at earthlink.net>
>>> To: "'NFB of Missouri Mailing List'" <nfbmo at nfbnet.org>
>>> Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2011 4:16 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [Nfbmo] Missouri appeals court overturns blind pension 
>>> ruling
>>>
>>>
>>>> Hi Gary. Thanks for the update.
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: nfbmo-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfbmo-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
>>>> Behalf
>>>> Of Horchem Gary
>>>> Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2011 4:13 PM
>>>> To: nfbmo at nfbnet.org
>>>> Subject: [Nfbmo] Missouri appeals court overturns blind pension ruling
>>>>
>>>> Hello folks found this on the Springfield News Leader's website
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) - A Missouri appeals court has overturned a
>>>> ruling awarding $30 million in back payments and interest to several
>>>> thousand blind residents.
>>>> The decision this week by a panel of the Western District State Court 
>>>> of
>>>> Appeals says the class action lawsuit brought by blind pension fund
>>>> recipients should have been subject to a five-year statute of
>>>> limitations.
>>>>
>>>> In March, a Cole County judge ruled the state owed $18.8 million to 
>>>> make
>>>> up for underpayments to blind Missourians from 1992 onward and $11.3
>>>> million of interest on that unpaid money. The appeals court said the
>>>> statute of limitations bars them from recouping payments before Feb. 
>>>> 16,
>>>> 2001, which was five years before the lawsuit was filed.
>>>>
>>>> The case was sent back to a circuit judge to recalculate the payments.
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