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H.R. 368, The Notch Fairness Act of 2007 (35 comments ↓)
H.R. 368 would amend title II of the Social Security Act to allow workers who attain age 65 after 1981 and before 1992 to choose either lump sum payments over four years totalling $5,000 or an improved benefit computation formula under a new 10-year rule governing the transition to the changes in benefit computation rules enacted in the Social Security Amendments of 1977.
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Lou Margolis
I feel that this bill should be appr0o0ved
Louis Margolis
18 Penn Rd.
Cranford, NJ 07016
lOUIS mARGOLIS
i FEEL THAT THIS BILL SHOULD BE APPROVED
Dolores Meadows
I truely believe the bill should be approved
Dolores Meadows
16812 Mayfield
roseville Mi 48066
dolores meadows
I believe the bill should be passed
Daniel T Lackey
I encourage support of this bill to help the victims born 1917-1926.
It should include their living spouses also.
Ken Howland
This should be approved. They deserve it
Frank Miller
This bill should be voted on and passed as it is a shameful inequity on those few who were born between 1917 and 1926 - my brother and I were born in 1922 & 1925.
Marsha
This should be approved! These people can barely make ends meet, my parents are included in this. It is not, nor has it ever been fair. We need to make it right for the ones that are still alive.
Daniel
Both my parents were/are affected by this inequity. My father served in WW2 a D-Day Normandy Beach invasion surivor. This is how his country remembered his service. We, as a country, must never forget the sacrafice made by these men and women that kept us free.
Pat
Yes this bill should be approved.
I thought it included persons
born up until 1926???
Brenda
Why does congress continue to avoid passing this badly needed bill to correct a great inequity? It has penalized both my late father and my mother, as well as many relatives and friends. These people contributed their fair shares and in many cases more than that. Give them a fair share in return!!
David R. Kohler, CAPT, USN
This inequity must definitely be corrected. If illegal aliens are now eligible to receive social security, it is unconscienable to penalize those citizens born between 1917-1926 who have paid into the system for their entire working lives. Contact your Congressmen now!
Wilfred Madsen
Approve the bill. It is only fair for the few "oldies" left. Many had seen action in the military service of our country. I'm one of them.
sandra read videla
this bill should be approved
Cinda R. Soccorsi Ezzi
Caring for an elderly ill mother, and the extra dollars would help with her choice between medicines or food. She is a US citizen and deserves better.
Barbara
Approve this bill. These are our parents and grandparents who sacrificed so much for this county. I did not know about this inequity untill now and am shocked and ashamed.
Neil Neuenschwander
Conress is just plainly fooling around on this issue , delaying until all or most of the Notch Babies die off so that they can get more earmarks in order to get more votes for themselves!
Arthur McIlwain
My wife and I both agree. we were both born in 1926 and have felt for a long time that we've been short-changed.
Anita
This bill should be approved. I was born in 1920, received my first paycheck with deductions in 1937 and worked until I was 73 years old. My husband,who is now 91, agrees with me that I should not be penalized for when I was born.
Edward Swartz
My mother was born in 1919 and is presently in a nursing facility. She worked for many years after her children were raised, times were tough.
Now is the time to make things right for the few surviving people of that time.
Pat
My husband will be 86 and STILL is
working to try and pay out bills! He has sent money in towards the Notch 5,000.00 lum sun but can't do it anymore- we are worried sick
are US Citizens and see everyone
getting HELP that he is paing for?
Surely someone understands that we NEED the extra money he is due from
SS..he worked and paid his dues, and can not now due to lack of work
It will be hard to ask for help, it has never been part of our lives before but we will have no choice but to ask- and we will be turned away because we are CITIZENS. Someone please let us know if these people are to just die off for the problem to be solved and no one but others have a
cent of the funds due those who are suffering for it NOW. God Bless America.
Marie Speer
This is a correction of an inequity that has deprived rightful beneficiaries from receiving what has been due to them for many years. Included in this age group are the veterans of The Greatest Generation, and their survivors. It is a disgrace to short-change these older citizens.
Janet
My mother is 85 and can hardly make "ends" meet. She pays out over $500 a month for health insurance because the health insurance covers all her medications and she has MANY.
Ken Neiswender
I was a veteran of two wars by my
23rd. birthday. My wife and I paid
social security tax for sixty-two
years. We are both in the notch
and are now in our eighties. there
is no possibilities for us to keep
abreast with the cost of living
expenses and fourteen prescribed
medications that our personal
physicians directed us to take
daily. Passing the bill in favor
of the notch babies would be fair
and very helpful. Are the congressional representatives who
are denying thse long overdue bene-
fits missing any of the meal,travel, or lodging benefits
that they legilated unto themselves?
sue
This bill needs to be passed. Too often the elderly in this country are overlooked. It's time they were looked after.
Eric Cashman
As I read the comments stated before mine, it is evident that most of you have not studied or read about the issue and are responding based on how they have been mislead by a fund raising organizations using the money they contribute to pay them large sum's for lobbying. Those paid before 1917 were paid too much in error. The mistake was corrected to it's intended amount. No one was cheated except the tax payers who where paying out too much for the retiree's born before 1917. When someone makes a foolish mistake you don't keep up the mistake once you realize it has been made. You fix it and move on. The real tragic part of SS is going to be the generation of citizens who paid into the system their whole lives and face not getting benefits when the system is under funded start in the year 2017. You are worried about not getting enough money and they need to worry about getting any at all after paying into a poorly conceived plan their entire lives
Frank
Shame on our government for mistreating the elderly!!
Do something Congress!
Robin
This bill should be passed for all those who fall into the years listed. Why is Congress dragging this out? I see the last action was over a year ago on this bill?
Bonita MacDuffee
Why is it taking so long to give these veterans their benefits? I think this legislation should be moving and approved ASAP.
Aleta
This is quite an injustice for a large number of seniors. Why has it taken this long to give these seniors the same deal other seniors have had. Are our represesntatives that cold hearted! What a pity! Shame on you!!!
Patty Jennings
I believe this bill needs to be acted on right now. Although working for the government I can see that they are just waiting for all the NOTCH BABIES to die, so this way they will not have to deal with the problem
Judy
As a daughter of two Notch Babies, I saw my parents struggle with money issues right up until their death. Give the living the money they are owed!!!!
karl kuhn
My mother is 89 years young, she lives with us because she has SS as her only income. She paid all of working life to SS. Now we see illegal aliens getting SS without paying into the system. It looks like that congress is waiting for them to die off and when there is a few left pass the bill and pat themselves on the back and say what a great job they did for eldery
Emil
I served in China Burma Inda Theater in WW2. I paid into the fund for more that sixty years.
I wrote to Lynn Woolsey in the House of Representative. In the Senate Babera Boxer, Dianne Feinstein Please Help
Dan
A little searching on the Internet shows that there is no clear inequity. In fact, one commission said that there was no inequity. How many of us are aware of a statement attributed by some to the Scottish-born Alexander Tytler?
“A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until that time the voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse over loose fiscal policy, (which is) always followed by a dictatorship.”