[NFBMO] Blind Pension Legislation

[Roger Crome]

My personal opinion is that creating an income limit on the sighted spouse is a way of side stepping the constitution.  They couldn’t land a left hook because the constitution blocks adding an income limit from being added to recipients.  So, they used a jab which  is asting but not a knock out.
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> On May 20, 2018, at 10:55 AM, Bryan Schulz via NFBMO <nfbmo at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> The question on the form is can your spouse support you 
> And the answer was no while both of them made about 50k per year.
> I wonder if the investigation caught people actually living in Illinois.
> Bryan
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: NFBMO <nfbmo-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Melissa Smith via NFBMO
> Sent: Sunday, May 20, 2018 9:31 AM
> To: NFB of Missouri Mailing List <nfbmo at nfbnet.org>
> Cc: Melissa Smith <mdsmith32811 at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [NFBMO] Blind Pension Legislation
> 
> Confused about what she had to lie about. There is no income limit for blind
> individuals.
> 
> 
> Melissa Kane
> Sent from my iPhone
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>> On May 19, 2018, at 8:07 PM, Bryan Schulz via NFBMO <nfbmo at nfbnet.org>
> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> What retaliation?
>> It's common sense.
>> Why should you be allowed to have a drivers license if your vision is 
>> poor enough to qualify for blind pension?
>> A spouse can still make 82k and the spouse still gets to keep 
>> receiving blind pension?
>> A stl state employee made about 50k for years and still received blind 
>> pension, all she had to do is lie on the annual form.
>> Bryan
>> 
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: NFBMO <nfbmo-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Roger Crome via 
>> NFBMO
>> Sent: Saturday, May 19, 2018 12:43 PM
>> To: NFB of Missouri Mailing List <nfbmo at nfbnet.org>
>> Cc: Roger Crome <r_crome1 at msn.com>
>> Subject: Re: [NFBMO] Blind Pension Legislation
>> 
>> Yep, definite retaliation for the lawsuit.
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> 
>>> On May 18, 2018, at 10:03 PM, Gene Coulter via NFBMO 
>>> <nfbmo at nfbnet.org>
>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> HB 2171, the Blind Pension bill, was truly agreed to and finally 
>>> passed late on Thursday.
>>> 
>>> The amendments include the 500% poverty limit for a sighted spouse 
>>> and forbid the recipients from having a drivers license among other
> items.
>>> 
>>> Gene
>>> 
>>> 
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