REDUCTIONS IN SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFIT LEVELS: THE NOTCH 72 BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON RETIREMENT INCOME AND EMPLOYMENT OF THE SELECT COMMITTEE ON AGING ONE HUNDREDTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION APRIL 24, 1987, CLEVELAND, OH Printed for the use of the Select Committee on Aging For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, Congressional Sales Office SELECT COMMITTEE ON AGING EDWARD R. ROYBAL, California, Chairman CLAUDE PEPPER, Florida HENRY A. WAXMAN, California BUTLER DERRICK, South Carolina GEO. W. CROCKETT, JR., Michigan ROBERT E. WISE, JR., West Virginia THOMAS J. MANTON, New York TOMMY F. ROBINSON, Arkansas RICHARD H. STALLINGS, Idaho JAMES MCCLURE CLARKE, North Carolina JOSEPH P. KENNEDY II, Massachusetts LOUISE M. SLAUGHTER, New York MATTHEW J. RINALDO, New Jersey, JOHN PAUL HAMMERSCHMIDT, Arkansas NORMAN D. SHUMWAY, California JAMES M. JEFFORDS, Vermont GEORGE C. WORTLEY, New York HELEN DELICH BENTLEY, Maryland HARRIS W. FAWELL, Illinois BEN BLAZ, Guam PATRICK L. SWINDALL, Georgia BILL SCHUETTE, Michigan FLOYD SPENCE, South Carolina WILLIAM F. CLINGER, JR., Pennsylvania FERNANDO TORRES-GIL, Staff Director SUBCOMMITTEE ON RETIREMENT INCOME AND EMPLOYMENT EDWARD R. ROYBAL, California, Chairman THOMAS J. DOWNEY, New York MARILYN LLOYD, Tennessee MARY ROSE OAKAR, Ohio GEO. W. CROCKETT, JR., Michigan MIKE SYNAR, Oklahoma RICK BOUCHER, Virginia ROBERT E. WISE, JR., West Virginia HAROLD L. VOLKMER, Missouri THOMAS J. MANTON, New York RICHARD H. STALLINGS, Idaho THOMAS J. TAUKE, Iowa, Ranking Minority Member NORMAN D. SHUMWAY, California JAMES M. JEFFORDS, Vermont HARRIS W. FAWELL, Illinois PATRICK L. SWINDALL, Georgia PAUL B. HENRY, Michigan BILL SCHUETTE, Michigan FLOYD SPENCE, South Carolina LOWELL ARYE, Majority Deputy Staff Director (II) Margaret Sheppard, member of Senior Citizens Resource Norma Boggs, Senior Citizen Friendship Club.. Walter Penkel, Seven Hills American Association of Retired Persons.. William Taylor, Crestview Senior Citizens Center, Cleveland, OH May Wykle, R.N., professor and chairperson, Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurs- ing and Gerontological Nursing, Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH.. William Robinson, district manager, Cleveland Downtown Social Security District; accompanied by Bruce Schobel, actuary attached to the Office of the Social Security Commissioner.... Jeannine Keating, Medicare Operations, Nationwide Insurance; accompanied by James A. Cuppy, Manager-Provider Reimbursement and Quality Assur- ance Medicare Operations, and Thomas McDonald, legal counsel.. 16 22 Gregory Peck, Breathco, Inc. (respiratory therapy equipment), Toledo, OH Larry Crane, Edgepark Surgical Supply (durable medical equipment), Garfield Kenneth Seminatore, J.D., chief legislative spokesperson for Blue Cross. W. Allen Intihar, president, Deaconess Hospital, Cleveland, OH .. |