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TexasTowelie

(122,514 posts)
Fri Feb 2, 2018, 08:02 PM Feb 2018

Blind Missourians with spouses making $36,000 a year would lose state aid under proposal

JEFFERSON CITY • More than 350 blind people could be cut off from a special state fund under legislation being considered by Missouri lawmakers.

In testimony to a House budget panel Wednesday, Rep. David Wood, R-Versailles, said the state should impose new financial limits on the state's Blind Pension Fund program and remove any recipient who has a driver’s license from receiving the benefit.

“We want to make sure it goes to the right people,” Wood said.

The state's Blind Pension Fund was established in the 1920s as a social safety net for the visually impaired. Last year, monthly payments of about $730 per month were paid out to an average of 2,874 recipients.

Read more: http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/blind-missourians-with-spouses-making-a-year-would-lose-state/article_f1636602-9944-5784-a37f-99bbf91bb41e.html

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Blind Missourians with spouses making $36,000 a year would lose state aid under proposal (Original Post) TexasTowelie Feb 2018 OP
Off to the divorce court many will go. Sophia4 Feb 2018 #1
I get not making payments if the person has Phoenix61 Feb 2018 #2

Phoenix61

(18,530 posts)
2. I get not making payments if the person has
Fri Feb 2, 2018, 08:22 PM
Feb 2018

a driver's license. I would like to think being legally blind would keep someone from behind the wheel.

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