Economics of Aging; Toward a Full Share in Abundance: Hearings, Ninety-first Congress, First [and Second] Session[s] April 29, 1969-May 6, 1970, Volumes 1-4U.S. Government Printing Office, 1969 - 2000 pages |
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... benefits or whether we are talking about the hospital insurance benefits - grows out of the work that people do . The fundamental idea of the program is that while you are working you are earning not only wages but you are earning also ...
... benefits or whether we are talking about the hospital insurance benefits - grows out of the work that people do . The fundamental idea of the program is that while you are working you are earning not only wages but you are earning also ...
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... benefits are reasonably re- lated to people's income when they retire , so that they are kept up to date as prices or wages rise in the future . I want to point out that the disability features of the social security program are of ...
... benefits are reasonably re- lated to people's income when they retire , so that they are kept up to date as prices or wages rise in the future . I want to point out that the disability features of the social security program are of ...
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... benefits and in establishing high minimums for relatively short - term contributors ? Now , also running through the entire program is the fundamental issue of having the benefits reasonably related to what people were earning near the ...
... benefits and in establishing high minimums for relatively short - term contributors ? Now , also running through the entire program is the fundamental issue of having the benefits reasonably related to what people were earning near the ...
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... benefit rate when they do retire because of work that they have performed after 65 and because of the fact that they have forgone their benefits while continuing to work . That is a possibility that also deserves study . CONCERN ABOUT ...
... benefit rate when they do retire because of work that they have performed after 65 and because of the fact that they have forgone their benefits while continuing to work . That is a possibility that also deserves study . CONCERN ABOUT ...
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... benefits and the amount of benefits are related to past earnings , with the definition of the legal right to benefits specified in detail . There is no individualized means test so that private pensions and personal savings can fully ...
... benefits and the amount of benefits are related to past earnings , with the definition of the legal right to benefits specified in detail . There is no individualized means test so that private pensions and personal savings can fully ...
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adequate Administration on Aging Advisory AFL-CIO age group aged persons amount areas Arne Anderson average beneficiaries Bureau Chairman coinsurance Committee on Aging consumer Consumer Price Index cost coverage disabled drugs early retirement earnings Economics of Aging elderly estimates facilities Federal financing fiscal funds Government health care expenditures health insurance health services hearing hospital income tax increase individual inflation Labor less major Medicaid Medicare ment million National negative income tax nursing home old age older persons ORIOL P/E ratios patients payments payroll tax percent physicians poverty poverty line present problems public assistance question reimbursement retired couple retirement income rising Senator MUSKIE Senior Citizens Social Security Administration social security benefits Source standard of living statement Statistics sumer survey task force tion U.S. Senate welfare widows women workers younger
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Page 447 - Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.
Page 503 - Suitable housing, independently selected, designed and located with reference to special needs and available at costs which older citizens can afford. 4. Full restorative services for those who require institutional care.
Page 63 - Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for giving me this opportunity to appear before you today.
Page 387 - When it is said that the budget recommended is intended to cover the necessary minimum, 'necessary' is to be given the common interpretation as including what will meet the conventional and social as well as biological needs. It represents what men commonly expect to enjoy, feel that they have lost status and are experiencing privation if they cannot enjoy, and what they insist upon having. Such a budget is not an absolute and unchanging thing. The prevailing judgment...
Page 18 - I don't want to take up too much of the committee's time, but I...
Page 417 - Opportunity for employment with no discriminatory personnel practices because of age. 6. Retirement in health, honor, dignity after years of contribution to the economy.
Page 422 - Room 712, New Post Office Building 433 West Van Buren Street Chicago, Illinois 60607...
Page 4 - One of the things we know for certain about any age group is that it has no future. The young become middle-aged and the middle-aged become old, and the old die. Consequently, the support which the middle-aged give to the young can be regarded as the first part of a deferred exchange, which will be consummated when those who are now young become middleaged and support those who are now middle-aged who will then be old. Similarly, the support which the middle-aged give to the old can be regarded as...
Page 732 - ... miles in another direction. Dental care, in an effort to save the few remaining teeth, so that dentures would fit more firmly and food could be more properly chewed required numerous visits to a dentist at still another location. Then a bladder problem developed and prostatic disease was suspected. At about the same period, the patient showed lethargy and confusion, suggesting a mild cerebrovascular accident.
Page 448 - They are intended to include those goods and services that are necessary for a healthful, self-respecting mode of living that allows normal participation in the life of the community in accordance with current American standards.